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La cuisiniere bourgeoise : suivie de l'office, a l'usage de tous ceux qui se mélent de dépense de maisons
by MENON
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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About This Item
1779 Cookbook MENON French Cuisine Cooking for Women Wine Liquor Food Recipes
The Menon Cookbook is perhaps one of the most famous 18th-century cookbooks ever published. While the identity of the author is never revealed, he is generally referred to as Menon. 'La Cuisiniere Bourgeoise' is one of the best-known and oft reprinted cookbooks and features hundreds of recipes and food preparations along with beer and wine making, ingredients, and strategies for cooking. Menon is known to include fewer seasonings and ingredients that are cheaper thus creating a sense of 'lower-class' food; even though Menon focuses on beautiful and eye-appealing dishes.
This cookbook was also known to be the very first cookbook devoted specifically to a woman cook. Menon himself said that the title could be read as either 'cuisine' or 'woman cook'. Either way, it answered a real need in France of female home-cooks along with recipes acceptable for the bourgeois. (Willan, 218-225). It was also the only cookbook to be reissued following the French Revolution. (Abramson, 22)
Item number: #24543
Price: $599
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La cuisiniere bourgeoise : suivie de l'office, a l'usage de tous ceux qui se mélent de dépense de maisons
Paris: Chez L. Cellot, 1779.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
o Vol. 1 – [2], xxvi, [2], 392
o Vol. 2 – [4], 400
· References: Willan & Cherniavsky, Cookbook Library; Abramson, Food Culture in France
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~6.75in X 4in (17cm x 10cm)
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- Bookseller
- Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24543
- Title
- La cuisiniere bourgeoise : suivie de l'office, a l'usage de tous ceux qui se mélent de dépense de maisons
- Author
- MENON
- Format/Binding
- Leather; tight and secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- L. Cellot
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1779
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1779 Cookbook MENON French Cuisine Cooking for Women Wine Liquor Food Recipes, rare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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