Jean-Baptiste Joseph Marius Reboul (, born 12 April 1862 in

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(

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) and died in 1926 in

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) was a French

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. He is known for his book compiling over 1,000 Provençal

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s and 365

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Biography

Reboul was a cook in the hotel Montreux on

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, and he shared his seasonal work between

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and

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before moving to

in 1884. He became chef at the Hotel de Castille and then at the Hotel du Luxembourg. From 1900 and until the end of his career, he was the head of the family home of Noilly Prat. Jean-Baptiste Reboul gathered Provençal recipes in his book ''La Cuisinière provençale''; the first edition in 1897 was an instant success. A copy of the sixth edition of 1910 was sent to the poet

Frédéric Mistral Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral (; oc, Josèp Estève Frederic Mistral, 8 September 1830 – 25 March 1914) was a French writer of Occitan literature and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel P ...

, creator of

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, a museum of Provençal culture in

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. He asked Reboul to add the names of Provençal dishes, which would be made in subsequent editions. The book includes 1,120 recipes and 365 menus. It was published in 24

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(250,000 copies), sometimes under the title ''La Cuisinière du Midi'' and is still regularly reprinted.

References

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