Ouverture de cuisine. Présentation du livre par Herman Liebaers. Translation en français moderne et glossaire par Léo Moulin. Commentaires gastronomiques par Jacques Kother.

8vo.

Mod. green blind-st. simili leather, flat gilt-orn. spine. Perfect copy.

Facsimile of the edition of Liège, L. Streel, 1604. Original text in old French followed by a translation in modern French. Only one original copy remains in the Royal Library of Belgium, testimony to 16th-c. gastronomy in the Principality of Liège. The first recipe book published in French in this region constituting the only link in the French language between medieval cuisine and classical cuisine of the 17th c.
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