Illus. from color photographs by Laurent Bianqui. Pictorial boards. First Edition. Toulouse: Daniel Briand/Robert Laffont, [1984].

Chef Traci des Jardins' copy, with her signature to upper front pastedown. Menus and recipes for celebrations by great French chefs: Bernard Loiseau, Alain Sendrens, Michel Lorain, Roger Verge, Georges Blanc, Guy Savoy, Pierre Gagnaire, Michel Le Coze, and many more, all of whom influenced Chef des Jardins' cooking when she lived in France and was classically trained by the Troisgros brothers.