Recipes from the Auberge of the Flowering Hearth
Indianapolis; New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1973]. Octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), xv, 444 pages. FIRST EDITION. A great classic of modern cookbooks. De Groot writes of his meals at an inn, L'Auberge de l'Atre Fleuri in St-Pierre-de-Chartreuse, in the Savoy region of France. Upon the book's release, Kirkus Reviews wrote, "Roy de Groot's Shangri-la is a tiny, isolated Alpine valley in the South of France where the auberge is.....