Description
Marseille’s fish market wakes before the sun. Boats tie up at the Vieux-Port, crates of mussels, sea bream and rascasse are swung over the side, and the cooks of the city arrive early to argue over the best of the catch for the day’s bouillabaisse. The fishwives shout their wares, gulls wheel overhead, and nobody hears a word anyone else is saying.
Chef Léa has shopped there every morning for twenty years and still writes each recipe in a stained notebook she keeps by the stove. This porcelain cookbook is filled with that same briny abundance, its covers painted with seafood illustrations. It’s the perfect present for the friend who makes a legendary paella, a chef opening a fish restaurant, or a family who spends every summer at the shore. Tuck it among the real cookbooks on a kitchen shelf, and when you open it, a small compartment is waiting for a favorite recipe card folded small.
Up close
- A book shape whose covers display seafood illustrations
- A small compartment hides inside
- Pairs naturally with a shelf of real cookbooks
- From Rochard
- Its fish and shellfish illustrations are hand-painted on French Limoges porcelain
An appetizing gift for a culinary graduate, a fishmonger, or the host of a summer clambake. Wrap it with a jar of sea salt and a lemon from the market, and it becomes a whole invitation to dinner by the water.
