Suzanne Laboureur; X.-M. Boulestin — Petit & Grands Plats

Paris, Au Sans Pareil, 1928. Hardback. A comprehensive recipe book celebrating French cuisine, particularly tradition and rustic recipes which are created with fine local produce. An early edition of Petits & Grands Plats, or the Treasure Trove for Lovers of True Cuisine, written by French cookery writer Suzanne Laboureur and restaurateur Xavier Marcel Boulestin. Published by Au Sans Pareil in 1928. First published in 1925.In the publisher's original pictorial paper boards.In this collaboration, Laboureur and Boulestin offer readers an array of recipes, often being rustic and traditional, containing the finest of local produce. Boulestin wrote a variety of cookery books aimed towards English readers, and helped popularise French cuisine abroad, as well as influencing the prolific English cookery writer Elizabeth David. In the publisher's original pictorial paper boards. Externally, mostly smart, with fading to spine and boards. Slight edgewear, with minor rubbing to joints, and creases to spine. Part of tail of spine has fallen. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. End papers are generally bright and clean, with browning and age toning. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are clean, with the faint odd spot to first and last leaves, and age toning throughout. Good . Ill.: None. Good .