La Varenne's Cookery - The French Cook, the French Pastry Chef, the French Confectioner

These three books by Francois Pierre de la Varenne (c. 1615-1678), who was chef to the Marquis d''Uxelles, are the most important French cookery books of the seventeenth century. They were the first French cookery books of any substance since Le Viandier almost 300 years before, and they ran to thirty editions in 75 years.