Ebook: Le grand dictionnaire de cuisine

Grand dictionnaire de cuisine
Dictionary of Cuisine
non-fiction, pub:1873

A dictionary of food, cookbook and more. Published posthumously. See also Petit Dictionnaire de Cuisine. Dumas was a much-admired chef. "The truffles themselves have been interrogated, and have answered simply: eat us and praise the Lord."


Liens/Links
Cronstadt, Punch, and Grog
Elefantfødder (how to cook an elephant) (danois/Danish)
On Coffee and Chicory


From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed:
For many years before his death Dumas had desired to produce a large work on cookery. He had written not a few articles on this science, and was an expert practical cook much interested in the national dishes of any country which he visited. All his general works were already contracted for by MM. Calmann-Lévy, but for this one he had reserved to himself complete liberty. It is an immense work, and apparently a thoroughly practical one, since the copy acquired for the Reed Dumas Collection came from the kitchen of a French lady, who was putting it to active use.
Owing to the war of 1870-71 the work was not printed until more than two years after Dumas' death.
Original edition: Paris, Lemerre, 1878, 2 portraits, pp. viii., 1155 plus 24 of advertisements, super royal 8vo.