[Sca-cooks] A Nepalese view of French food

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

The myths about C de M will be a long time dying.

I recently read an  article in a very serious reference book - I believe it 
was the Larousse  Gastronomique, though I'm not sure - written by a person 
with very serious  credentials and fairly recently, and it simply repeated 
this as established  fact. (The most recent version of the Larousse also 
preserves its gratuitously  distorted version of what is already a myth about 
the croissant being invented  at a siege - originally claimed at Vienna, but 
per the Larousse at  Budapest.)
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

A  History of Coffee and Other Refreshments in Early Modern France 
by  Pierre Le Grand d'Aussy  

 
In a message dated 4/30/2013 5:24:14 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
johnnae at mac.com writes:

Did  anyone notice they credit Catherine de Medici with the improvement of 
French  cookery?