In the original dust cover. Blue cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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Witty, original and always mouth-watering, the recipes in this acclaimed collection offer classic and original dishes as prepared by the most innovative of French chefs. Never afraid to fly in the face of tradition, Pomiane was a noted dietician who taught at the Institute Pasteur and was the first food-writer to be fully aware of the implications for health of classical French cookery. He was, however, never earnest or po-faced – ‘one can always start slimming tomorrow’. As Elizabeth David noted, he anticipated nouvelle cuisine by several decades, doing so in a way which ‘takes the mystique out of cookery processes and still contrives to leave us with the magic’.

Review: This is a fabulous book, written from the heart of a true host. This is not a cookbook that tells you how to impress – it’s a warm and witty treatise on the art of hospitality. Yes, it contains lots of recipes, most of which you’ll never want to cook, but it’s much more than that. It brims with conviviality, as Pomiane exuberantly encourages you to drink a crisp white wine with your scrambled eggs, or extols the virtues of Polish pierozhki. And if you’re an anxious cook, his experimental breeziness in the kitchen might persuade you to chuck a bit more flour in, or measure butter in ‘walnuts’ rather than grammes. Wonderful.

NOTE: This is an original  book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. Note: Jack founded the Michelin Guide ‘Midsummer House’- Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. The Midsummer House experience is imaginatively curated to delight and amaze, so the surprise set menu changes regularly and is ‘Midsummer’s’ playground to showcase.

In 2008, Jack was one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, alongside other members of the Department, and acted as the Foundation’s Chair. The project’s original goals were modest: to build and distribute low-cost computers for prospective applicants to our Computer Science degree. Initially the project was a “success disaster”, as Jack would say, as demand far outstripped the low-scale manufacturing plans. Ultimately the Raspberry Pi became the UK’s most successful computer with more than 60 million sold to date. Jack was drawn to the educational possibilities of the Raspberry Pi, its potential uses in emerging economies and the way it could support self-directed learning.