SC - La Varenne (OOP, FL)

[TG]

<< I've been searching on the web for his book, the title of which is, i
think, Le cuisiner francois or  Le cuisiner francais. So far, no luck.
>>

- -- Flandrin, Jean-Louis/ Hyman, Philip/ Hyman, Mary (eds.): Le cuisinier
françois. Paris (Montalba) 1983.
(Contains other works, too; -- in French.)

There are some comments on La Varenne, his role in culinary history, his
contemporaries and on some culinary polemics in 
- -- Jean-François Revel: Un festin en paroles. Histoire littéraire de la
sensibilité gastronomique de l'Antiquité à nos jours. 1979.
There is a German translation ('Erlesene Mahlzeiten', 1979), and an
English translation ('Culture and cuisine. A journey through the history
of food', 1984), too.

Th.