Dictionnaire Portatif de Cuisine, D'Office, et de Distillation
Paris: Chez Lottin, 1770.
Derniere. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Very Good Condition. Item #CAT000667
Attractively rebound in leather backed marble boards in period style. Scattered browning, foxing, minor paper flaws, mark on title from acidic ink signature on verso. Two volumes in one, bound without the second title. xvi, 384, 382, (2)pp. Styled the Derniere edition (though a few followed). Usually noted as having been first published in 1765 (or 1762) but maybe through a confusion with the Dictionnaire Domestique Portatif. The first located edition was 1767. Cagle 162 (1767 ed.), Bitting 5543, Oberle (2) 98, Vicaire 276
Often lost among the more original (Menon, Massialot) or charming (Le Cuisinier Gascon) cookbooks that preceded it and the post-revolutionary works that followed (Beauvilliers, Careme), the Dictionnaire Portatif marks an interesting, if largely derivative, moment in French cuisine. Like the contemporary (also anonymous) Manuel des officiers de bouche, it serves as a summation of centuries of French cuisine from Taillevent and the Menagier to the brink of the revolution, all in a handy alphabetical form. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000667.
Price: $450.00