{"product_id":"toulouse-lautrec-cuisine-cookbook","title":"Toulouse-Lautrec Art of Cuisine Cookbook","description":"\u003cp\u003eToulouse-Lautrec Art of Cuisine Cookbook is a vintage cookbook by Alexandra Leaf, a culinary historian and author. This is a first edition from 1966. The book presents recipes that Lautrec, the famed French painter, developed. There are also some illustrations of the menus Lautrec designed and decorated. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003e---- \u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat: \u003c\/strong\u003eHardcover with dust jacket, 170 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCopyright: \u003c\/strong\u003e1966, First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/strong\u003eHenry Holt and Company \u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/strong\u003eToulouse-Lautrec and Maurice Joyant \u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003c!-- split --\u003e\r\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription: \u003c\/strong\u003eHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec brought to his art a zest for life as well as an impeccable style. It is an exciting discovery to find that Lautrec applied this same exuberance and meticulous technique to the art of cuisine -- that he invented recipes and cooked new dishes as an artistic creation worthy of his serious attention.  \u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eThis cookbook volume is a collection of the recipes that Lautrec invented, or were garnered in his company from acquaintances of all classes of society. It has been illustrated with the menus that Lautrec himself designed and decorated, as well as with a rich abundance of other appropriate Lautrec paintings and drawings. The frontispiece is a portrait by Edouard Vuillard of Lautrec preparing one of his masterful dishes. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eThe recipes are given here in their original form, retaining their color of thought and language. The only modifications are culinary notes that have been added to facilitate the work of modern cooks. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eLautrec took great pride in his culinary ability, and if he felt it would not be appreciated, he would say that some people \"are not worthy of ring dove with olives, they will never have any and they will never know what it is.\" Lautrec planned meals carefully, made beautifully decorated menus, and was inspired by the dinners to draw more sketches of the diners, and of the food. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eHe also brought to cuisine, as to the rest of his life, a marvelous wit. Who could forget the invitation to eat kangaroo, in honor of an animal that he had seen boxing at a circus (it was replaced at the last moment by an enormous sheep with an artificial pouch); or the housewarming of the apartment of his friend Natanson, where in a crazy atmosphere, he managed to intoxicate the artistic elite of Paris and launch the fashion of cocktail food. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eWe owe the record of this cuisine (and also of a great body of the art collection itself) to Maurice Joyant. Joyant and Lautrec had been childhood friends, and their intimacy was renewed and deepened during the Montmartre years, when Lautrec's fame was growing and Joyant was director of the same art gallery in Paris that Theo Van Gogh had run before him. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eLautrec was, throughout their relationship, the artist and innovator; Joyant, the steadying influence, the protector, and, after the painter's death, the executor. This book is a tribute to their friendship and to their daily intercourse in art and in cuisine. Thus, art, friendship, and food have come together in The Art of Cuisine as a joyful legacy of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Maurice Joyant. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003e---- \u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003eGood condition. Jacket has some frayed edges. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sold Out Cookbooks","offers":[{"title":"HC","offer_id":35552336380056,"sku":"","price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/4374\/4920\/products\/ToulouseLautrecArtCuisine.jpg?v=1596187890","url":"https:\/\/cookbookvillage93939-com.myshopify.com\/products\/toulouse-lautrec-cuisine-cookbook","provider":"cookbookvillage93939.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}