A cookbook by the author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo may seen an improbability. Yet Alexandre Dumas was an expert cook -- -his love of food was said to be equalled only by his love of women -- and his Great Dictionary of Cuisine, written "to be read by worldly people and used by professionals" and published posthumously in 1873, is a masterpiece in its own right.

Fireside, 1990.
ISBN: 9780671726089. 282 pp.
Illus.
Softcover. Very good.