More on the Collections Petit Format imprint from Montreal publisher Les Editions Moderne.
There is a fascinating overlap between Harlequin and Les Editions Moderne as both published a French language cookbook. The CPF version is Cuisinons (Cook), 1955 by Jehane Benoit. Benoit (1904-1987) was a
well-known culinary author
who appeared on French and English television
and
wrote a column for La
Revue Moderne. The Harlequin
cookbook is The
Pocket Purity Cookbook (1950).
Uniquely it was also published the same month by Harlequin in French as Livre de cuisine Purity petit format.
Harlequin 52 - June 1950
Harlequin 52 back
Collection Petit Format nn - October 1955
Collection Petit Format nn back
There was also an earlier Jehane Benoit cookbook published by Collection Petit Format in December of 1949. Specifically number 175, entitled "Les meilleures recettes de Jehane-P. Benoit".
ReplyDeleteThanks. I somehow missed that.
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