A Peek at Elizabeth David's bookshelf

.... Her inspiration from Boulestin

‘In cookery, more than in anything else, we see clearly the errors of the past, and each generation is ever ready to criticise, most of the time with reason, what the other generations have done.’

So wrote Xavier Marcel Boulestin in 1937 in his book The Finer Cooking or Dishes for Parties, ‘with decorations by J.E.Laboureur.’ The volume in my collection …