1783 Cookbook MENON French Cuisine Cooking for Women
1783 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 reissued following the French Revolution. (Abramson, 22)
Item number: #7233
Price: $499
MENON
La cuisiniere bourgeoise, suivie de l'office, a l'usage de tous ceux qui se mêlent de dépenses de maisons : contenant la maniere de disséquer, connoître & servir toutes sortes de viandes.
Lyon : Chez Amable Leroy, 1783.
Details:
Collation: Complete with all pages
374 (i.e. 372)
References: Willan & Cherniavsky, Cookbook Library; Abramson, Food Culture in France;
Provenance: Bookplate – Charles Crosilhes
Charles Crosilhes served as mayor of the French commune of Montauban from 1848-1851.
Language: French
Binding: Leather; tight & secure
Size: ~6.75in X 4in (17cm x 10cm)
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1783 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 reissued following the French Revolution. (Abramson, 22)
Item number: #7233
Price: $499
MENON
La cuisiniere bourgeoise, suivie de l'office, a l'usage de tous ceux qui se mêlent de dépenses de maisons : contenant la maniere de disséquer, connoître & servir toutes sortes de viandes.
Lyon : Chez Amable Leroy, 1783.
Details:
Collation: Complete with all pages
374 (i.e. 372)
References: Willan & Cherniavsky, Cookbook Library; Abramson, Food Culture in France;
Provenance: Bookplate – Charles Crosilhes
Charles Crosilhes served as mayor of the French commune of Montauban from 1848-1851.
Language: French
Binding: Leather; tight & secure
Size: ~6.75in X 4in (17cm x 10cm)
Our Guarantee:
Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.
Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation!
7233
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