The French Menu Cookbook

Reviews / Votes

The perfect prose is as beautiful as the menus.
-Rachel Cooke in The Observer Food Monthly


Immaculate instruction. Glorious prose. Recipes for serious kitchen folk. My most cherished cookery book.
-Simon Hopkinson


[Olney] was a true genius in the kitchen, and his writing was as sensual and precise as his handling of ingredients. Let trumpets sound to mark the timely resurrections of this, one of his best-loved books.
-Alan Davidson, author of The Oxford Companion to Food


'Comes wreathed in compliments from people such as Simon Hopkinson, Alan Davidson and Prue Leith ... reading it is almost enough in itself; for perfection, give it to someone clever enough to cook it all for you.' - Telegraph Magazine


'Meticulous in its advice, the seasonal menus and recipes are superb. Food writing as good as this is rare indeed.' The Western Mail, No. 8 of the 30 best cookbooks of all time


Henry Harris of Racine told FT Magazine that Richard Olney "writes so beautifully, you can lose yourself in his glorious prose."


The book was selected by The Week as one of the best cookbooks of 2010 - "this cookbook is the perfect introduction to (Richard Olney's) 'passionate and idiosyncratic' approach to French cooking."


The Sunday Tribune (Eire) has called it a "seductive read for any Francophile, even better for one who can cook."