TY  - BOOK
AU  - La Varenne,François Pierre de
AU  - Scully,Terence
TI  - La Varenne's cookery: the French cook ; the French pastry chef ; the French confectioner 
SN  - 1903018412
AV  - TX707 .L313 2006
U1  - 641.5944 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Blackawton, Totnes, U.K.
PB  - Prospect Books
KW  - Cooking, French
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Pastry
KW  - France
KW  - Confectionery
KW  - Baking
KW  - Beverages
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-121) and index
N2  - Modern translation of La Varenne's The French cook, The French pastry chef, and The French confectioner, published in Paris between 1651 and 1660, essential reading for anyone seeking to understand French cookery of the seventeenth century.  Includes a detailed commentary covering the life of La Varenne, the nature of his three works, and period French cooking.  La Varenne (1618-1678) was chef to the Marquis d'Uxelles and the first to produce a French cookery book of any substance since Le Viandier almost 300 years earlier, and therefore the first to record the advances in French cooking since the fifteenth century
ER  -