Larousse Gastronomique Encyclopedia of Food Wine & Cookery Prosper Montagne 1961

The World Authority Larousse Gastronomique The Encyclopedia of Food Wine & Cookery Prosper Montagne  First American Edition  English, Seventh Printing September 1966, Crown Publishing 1961. Cloth Boards.  Condition: Good  Dust Jacket Fair- chippy edges  Hard back blue cloth board with white imprints.   Book Condition: Good.   Prefaces by Auguse Escoffier and Phileas Gilbert. Text translated from the French by Nina Froud, Patience Gray, Maud Murdoch and Barbara Macrae Taylor.   This great encyclopedia is an inexhaustible treasury of recipes and culinary knowledge. And as a history of cooking by a master of that art it makes fascinating reading, for its sources range from Rabelais to Brillat-Savarin, from a country farmhouse kitchen to the banquets of ancient Greece. Prosper Montagne was a native of Languedoc, a province which for centuries has had a tradition of fine cooking.   Over a million words on food, wine and cooking. Nearly 1,000 illustrations. More than 8,500 recipes. Illustrated. 1098 pp. HardbackPreface by Escoffier and Phileas Gilbert edited by Nina froud Charlotte Turgeon and others.