M. E. Audot - La cuisinière de la campagne et de la ville ou nouvelle cuisine économique - 1830

Fascinating edition of this domestic cookery manual which aims to make culinary techniques accessible to a wide audience, both in urban households and in countryside homes -

The work belongs to a period when French gastronomic literature is gradually transforming, developing practical collections intended not only for great cooks or aristocratic households, but also for families, bourgeois households and people responsible for preparing meals daily -

The fundamental principle of the book lies in combining good cooking and economy, with the objective of offering tasty preparations without demanding excessive expenses nor overly complicated procedures -

M. E. Audot - La cuisinière de la campagne et de la ville ou nouvelle cuisine économique - 1830 - Audot -
340 Pages.

Good binding condition, work in its original brown half-leather morocco, marbled boards, wear from use, minor defects on the cover, damaged spine head, fore-edge cracked, corners worn, speckled edges, smooth decorated spine, gilded title on morocco inlay -

Good interior condition, some stains and damp marks, stamp on title page, some black engravings out of text including frontispiece, clean text, marbled endpapers in good condition, good copy -

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