REVIEW. - POT-AU-FEU (Le), journal of practical cooking and - Lot 528

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REVIEW. - POT-AU-FEU (Le), journal of practical cooking and - Lot 528
REVIEW. - POT-AU-FEU (Le), journal of practical cooking and home economics. Important set of this bi-monthly culinary journal. 1893 - 1923. Set gathering, in unpaired in-8 volumes, the first 15 years of this culinary journal (1893-1907), completed by some years (1910, 1920 to 1924), and other years in duplicate. The journal, which is addressed to "housewives of all backgrounds", has the particularity of publishing the first public cooking courses, invented and taught by Charles Driessens, which were very successful at the time. It also gives principles of nutrition, choice and conservation of foodstuffs, adulterations, recipes, menus, hygiene issues, heating, ornamentation, advertising, etc... From the first issue, published on April 15, 1893, the motto is chosen: "to be practical". The subtitle transformed into "Le Pot-au-feu et les bonnes recettes réunis", this very popular magazine will be published beyond the first half of the twentieth century (the last volume preserved at the B.n.F. is dated 1956). Detailed description : - bound series, 12 vol. in-8, black half-chagrin (except the last issue, black half cloth): 1896-1907. - bound series, one large vol. in-8, half red basane : 1904-1096. - bound series, 5 vol. in-8, spines torn off : complete series of the first 6 years : 1893-1898. - loose set : 1893, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1899, 1904. - series of stapled issues : in-8, in folders : 1896, n° 1 to 24. Missing n° 2. - 1906, n° 1 to 24. Missing n° 5. - 1910, n° 1 to 24. Missing n° 5. - Covers sometimes detached / in-4 : 1920, n° 4 to 27. Missing n° 1, 2, 3. - 1921, 1922, 1923, n° 1 to 24 : complete years.
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