Larousse Gastronomique by Prosper Montagne with Preface by Auguste Escoffier | 1961 Edition | French Cooking | Bixley Shop

August Escoffier, renown "king of cooks and cook of kings," wrote the preface for this massive, 1000+ page history of French cuisine by Prosper Montagne. As he wrote...

"The history of the table of a nation is a reflection of the civilization of that nation. It is the history of French cuisine that is the subject of Larousse Gastonomique in which Prosper Montagne has outlined in some thousand pages all the improvements brought to the culinary art from prehistoric times to the present fay. Presented in the form of a dictionary, it sums up all that has been achieved by the science of alimentation, an everything in it has been minutely studied and described."

A comprehensive study of the history of French cooking, the original Larousse Gastronomique was published in 1938. This is the 1961 edition published by Crown Publishers, Inc. in English.

A great gift for anyone interested in French cooking or the history of cooking, the book features definitions of French cooking techniques with classic recipes over 1,101 pages!

BIXLEY NOTES
• Larousse Gastronomique
• Written by Prosper Montagne
• Preface by Auguste Escoffier and Phileas Gilbert
• Published by Crown Publishers, 1961 (original copyright 1938)
• Measures 10 1/4" x 7 5/8"

VINTAGE NOTES
• In great condition
• Binding is nice and tight
• Almost no wear on the hardcovers
• Dust jacket is missing
• Pages are in excellent condition
• Inscribed in pen on the inside front page

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