Michel Guérard's Cuisine Minceur 1977 Macmillan Hardcover French Nouvelle Cuisine Cookbook

Michel Guérard's Cuisine Minceur is the 1977 English translation and adaptation by Caroline Conran of Guérard's influential French cookbook La Grande Cuisine Minceur, presented here in hardcover with its original dust jacket.

The book explains Guérard's lighter approach to French cooking, with sections on ingredients, measurements, menus, cooking methods, stocks, sauces, marinades, soups, first courses, salads, fish, meat, vegetables, and desserts.

Details

• Item: Cookbook
• Title: Michel Guérard's Cuisine Minceur
• Author: Michel Guérard
• Illustrator: Drawings by Michel Guérard, photographs by D. Didier Blanchat
• Publisher: Macmillan London Ltd
• Publication Year: 1977
• Edition and Printing: First published 1977 by Macmillan London Ltd. Exact printing not confirmed from photos.
• Format and Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
• Dust Jacket: Present
• Pages: 413
• Genre: French cooking, nouvelle cuisine, cookbook
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0-333-21907-4
• Dimensions: Approximately 10 x 6 x 1 1/2 inches

Condition Grade: Good

Positives

• Graded Good: Complete and intact with noticeable wear, but clean and very usable.
• Pages are clean, easy to read, and the text is generously sized.
• Orange cloth boards remain bright under the jacket.

Issues / Wear

• Dust jacket shows overall yellowing and age toning.
• There is light edge wear and a small tear or split at the top of the spine area.
• Minor surface wear is visible on the jacket from handling and age.

Condition Grade Key

• Near Fine: Almost perfect. Very minor signs of age only.
• Very Good: Shows light use. Sound and attractive with minor flaws.
• Good: Complete and intact. Noticeable wear consistent with age and use.
• Fair: Shows significant wear. Readable or usable but clearly used.

Collector's Notes

Michel Guérard was a major figure in nouvelle cuisine and developed Cuisine Minceur as a lighter alternative to traditional rich French cooking.

The English edition brought that approach to home cooks outside France at a moment when lighter French cuisine was gaining international attention.

This copy keeps the original 1977 Macmillan dust jacket and includes the practical contents buyers often want to check before choosing a cookbook.

A strong shelf copy for readers who collect influential twentieth century cookbooks and still want a book they can actually cook from.