Guide culinaire vs Menus made easy, or, How to order dinner and give the dishes their French names: Which Should You Read?

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Cover of Guide culinaire

Guide culinaire Auguste Escoffier · 1903 902 pages · ≈ 16 h 42 m · Challenging Find on Amazon

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Cover of Menus made easy, or, How to order dinner and give the dishes their French names

Menus made easy, or, How to order dinner and give the dishes their French names Nancy Lake · 1880 290 pages · ≈ 5 h 22 m · Challenging Find on Amazon

The verdict

Menus made easy, or, How to order dinner and give the dishes their French names is the quicker read — about 5 hours vs 16 for Guide culinaire.

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