Escoffier.   Georges Auguste     - Signed by the Author. 1930.
A. ESCOFFIER L'Aide Memoire Culinaire
SUIVE D'UNE Etude sur les Vins Francais et Etrangers a l'usage des Cuisiniers, Maitres d'hotel et Garcons de Restaurant ERNEST FLAMMARION, EDITEUR 26, RUE RACINE, PARIS Droits de traductions et de reproduction reserve pour tous pays, y compris la Suede et la Norvege.
190x120mm. n/d but circa 1928. 1fep. Half title with an unusual dedication signed by Escoffier - "En Souvenir A Monsieur Charles Leydecker sincire sympathie E Escoffier Mars 1930" and also as expected, Escoffier's facsimile signature on the verso, headed Note de l'Auteur. Title page with verso Advertissement Important. (1)vi-viii Avant-Propos. (1)1-390. no fep. Soiled original orange-brown paper covers with text still clearly legible. Internally evenly age browned throughout. This looks like a chefs well used copy that has been kept intact in the original state. Because of the signature it is housed in a dark brown cloth clamshell box. Two black and gilt morocco labels on spine. The first 3 leaves and front cover has clear tissue repairs not affecting the text. A rare, complete and original signed copy of this least known of Escoffier's writings.
- The first edition was published - 1919. When one assembles the list of all of Escoffier's writings, a picture emerges of French Cuisine explained in its detailed entirety; from the classic to the new modern. Starting with his great 'Guide to Modern Cookery' to this abbreviated memory aid, then recipe books about Rice and Cod, a treatise on Wax flower modelling, also recipe booklets about his bottled sauces, and unusually recipes for stock cubes, not forgetting his many articles for contemporary culinary magazines. Taking into account all his mentoring and placement of over 2000 pupils and colleagues in good positions of employment all over the world, one wonders how he managed the hard working daily routine of a Chef de Cuisine of a very large kitchen brigade that started at 6am till late evening. But he did. His was a life of extraordinary endeavor and creativity that is well documented by many of his friends, former apprentices and admirers. Appreciation grows and grows.

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