Louis-Eustache Audot - La cuisinière de la campagne et de la ville, Ou nouvelle cuisine économique - 1883

Exciting illustrated edition of this true culinary bestseller of the 19th century, the 1883 edition of Mr. L. E. Audot's manual embodies the ideal of accessible, practical, and realistic home cooking suitable for both bourgeois and rural households.

Organized into several hundred recipes, tips, and techniques, the work offers a synthesis of French gastronomy from an economic, hygienic, and family perspective.

It covers basic preparations — soups, meats, fish, vegetables, pastries — but also preserves, vinegars, liqueurs, home remedies, and table customs, with particular attention to the simplicity of ingredients, clarity of instructions, and cost reduction.

It also reflects technical evolutions (cooking, preservation), regional influences, and festive practices, while incorporating recipes inspired by haute cuisine adapted to modest means.

Louis-Eustache Audot - The Cookery of the Countryside and the City, Or New Economical Cuisine - 1883 - Librairie Audot
701 Pages

Good condition of the binding, the work in its original half brown calf leather, marbled boards, signs of wear, rubbed headbands and corners, pigmented edges, smooth decorated spine, with gilded titling.

Good interior condition, browning, work adorned with beautiful engravings in and out of the text, including in the frontispiece, marbled endpapers.

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