The Dione Lucas Book of French Cooking

dione lucas marion gorman joseph s. patti

Discussions of kitchen equipment, supplies, procedures, and French attitudes about the art of cooking accompany more than one thousand recipes adapted to the American kitchen.

Genres cookbooksfood

925 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1973

This edition

Format: 925 pages, Hardcover
Published: July 9, 1986 by Weathervane Books
ISBN: 9780517615348
ASIN: 0517615347
Language: English

About the author

dione lucas

Dione Lucas was an English woman who was the first female graduate of Le Cordon Bleu. Lucas was fundamental in establishing an unprecedented extension of the famous Paris Culinary School in London in the 1930s. She worked as a hotel chef in Hamburg before World War II and wrote of preparing stuffed squab for Adolf Hitler. She later opened a Cordon Bleu restaurant and a cooking school in New York. She also ran the Egg Basket restaurant by Bloomingdale's in New York. Her cooking show To The Queen's Taste was broadcast on CBS in 1948-1949 from the restaurant. She had another show in the 1950s.