There’s a wonderful quote from Katherine Bitting that describes Alexander Dumas as: ‘A noted author and gourmand who wrote novels [The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Christo, etc] and stories because he needed the revenue but produced his materpiece, the Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine, because he loved the work.’ Enough said. This isn’t a beautiful edition or anything, but it does the job, and will let you see what a big cheese thought about eating woodcock and toast and stuff. Fascinating from start to finish.
Publisher/Published: Originally published (posthumously) in 1873. This edition: Routledge, 2013. Paperback.
There’s a wonderful quote from Katherine Bitting that describes Alexander Dumas as: ‘A noted author and gourmand who wrote novels [The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Christo, etc] and stories because he needed the revenue but produced his materpiece, the Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine, because he loved the work.’ Enough said. This isn’t a beautiful edition or anything, but it does the job, and will let you see what a big cheese thought about eating woodcock and toast and stuff. Fascinating from start to finish.
Publisher/Published: Originally published (posthumously) in 1873. This edition: Routledge, 2013. Paperback.
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