Monet’s Table: The Cooking Journals of Claude Monet (Signed by the Author)

Signed hardcover, fine in fine dust jacket. Pages clean, crisp, and unmarked throughout; boards and jacket clean and bright. A handsome copy. Monet's Table: The Cooking Journals of Claude Monet by Claire Joyes is among the most celebrated art-and-cookery books of its era. Text by Joyes, photographs by Jean-Bernard Naudin, with Monet's recipes recreated by master chef Joël Robuchon. Joyes and her husband, Jean-Marie Toulgouat — Madame Monet's great-grandson — lived at Giverny and were closely involved in the faithful restoration of the gardens. The book presents over 160 of Monet's own recipes alongside reproductions of his paintings, colour photographs of Giverny, and facsimile pages from his notebooks. Published by Simon & Schuster, 1989.