The Ouest-Eclair cookbook is on sale.
It includes 600 award-winning recipes from our competition and more than 200 original recipes by master chef Nignon.

Everything's coming!

Finally, the cookbook whose upcoming release we have repeatedly announced... is in print.
It will go on sale Tuesday, April 14th, at the Ouest-Eclair Library, 38 rue du Pré-Botté, Rennes, for 5 francs (6 francs postpaid).
This 368-page collection includes, in addition to the 600 award-winning recipes from our competition, more than 200 recipes by master chef Nignon.
The headings are illustrated by the excellent artist L. Garin, and this, along with the text, is a significant attraction.

What exactly is this book? Uncle Claude, who presided over its preparation, says so in the preface from which we are excerpting these passages:
This cookbook does not claim to be complete. What it offers the reader is more than a collection of more or less successful recipes: the principles of good French cuisine, the very principles of the culinary art.
This book was composed under the direction and with the active assistance of Mr. Edouard Nignon; what more solid guarantee of its value!
Who does not know Mr. Nignon, one of the glories of French cuisine, one of the undisputed masters of this subtle and delicate, learned, and rich art that foreigners copy without being able to equal it, as if this art could flourish and flourish at ease only on French soil?
This book, composed in part by Mr. Nignon, will, I am sure, be very much appreciated by our readers. In truth, among all these recipes, a few—the exception, we hasten to add—are neither easy nor cheap (alas!), but the attentive reader will discover a particular "guiding" principle, a hint to use "later," or even the idea that will allow them to create their own.

Cooking is an art, a charming and difficult art. This book is intended for those who love and cultivate it.

To the first fifty winners of our cooking competition
The first fifty winners of our cooking competition will be kind enough to send their address to the Management of Ouest-Eclair, who will send them a numbered copy of the cookbook, with their name printed on the cover page.