1758 Cuisine et Office de Santé (Joseph) Menon 1st Edition Original Binding

Description: Cuisine et Office de Santé, Propre à ceux qui vivent avec œconomie & régime. A Paris, Chez Le Clerc, Quai des Augustins, à la Toison d'Or., Prault père, Quai de Gêvres, au Paradis, Babuty père, rue S. Jacques, à S. Jean Chrisostome. 1758, First Edition in Original Leather Binding, 416 pp + viii pp index. 6.75 x 4", 12mo. In fair condition. Original leather boards scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head of spine chipped - headband exposed. Tail of spine bumped & leather rubbed. Both front and rear hinges split, but binding remain intact. Gilt lettering and deco on spine normal rubbed at edges, but overall very presentable. All edges speckled red. Remnants of previous bookplate found on marbled front paste-down. Previous ownership signature, in ink, found at top edge of title page. Author's name hand-written, in ink, at bottom edge of title page. Normal age-related toning throughout text-block. Original binding intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Menon was the most prolific cookbook author in 18th-century France. Very little is known of his life as a whole. The National Library of France (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) lists his name as Joseph Menon. His numerous works were often reprinted, sometimes anonymously. The best-known of his books is probably La Cuisinière bourgeoise, which was first published in 1746 and every year after for the next century, even during the French Revolution. It was the most reprinted French cookbook and the only one written before the French Revolution to be reprinted after 1800. Before the publication of La Cuisinière bourgeoise, French cookbooks claimed to make a royal and elite cuisine available to all budgets. Menon's book took the opposite approach, presenting a cuisine with "modest origins" that would be sought after by elites. The recipes were simpler and healthier. "Bourgeois" or middle-class cuisine was women's cooking, hence the feminine cook in the book's title. Other Titles include: Nouveau Traité de la Cuisine, Paris, 1739, 3 vol.; La Cuisinière bourgeoi se, Paris, 1746, 2 vol.; La Science du Maître d’Hôtel cuisinier, avec des Observations sur la connaissance et la propriété des aliments, Paris, 1749; Les Soupers de la Cour, ou l’art de travailler toutes sortes d’aliments pour servir les meilleures tables, Paris, 1758, 4 vol.; Traité historique et pratique de la Cuisine, Paris, 1758, 2 vol.; Le Nouveau Cuisinier français, 3 vol.; Cuisine et Office de Sante, Paris, 1758; Manuel des Officiers de bouche, Paris, 1759; La Science du Maître d’hôtel confiseur, Paris, 1768. First Edition, rare in original binding. RAREF1758JORB 05/24 - HK1564

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