Subtitled '299 Traditional Recipes for Family Meals and Gatherings' gives you an idea that the cookbook is going for the homey feel. Stéphane Reynaud is the author, and he is also the owner of a restaurant, Villa 9 Trois in Montreuil, located near Paris, specializing in pork. He is the grandson of a village butcher on the Ardèche plateau in France and the author of Pork & Sons and Terrine.
The book is more of a travelogue of France, with collages of pictures and biographies of various boulangerie and charcuterie owners. There is a photo of every dish there is a recipe for, and throughout the book, the photographs are spectacular. The book also has drawings, almost like cartoons, that highlight or emphasize a point.
I already have almost 20 French cookbooks, and I would not buy this one for myself--but I would buy it for someone getting married, or going on their first trip to France, or for someone who wants to cook a few traditional dishes, know what they should look like when made propertly, and what context to serve them in.
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