''L'Art culinaire'' was a biweekly gastronomical magazine for professional chefs founded in Paris in 1882 by Maurice Dancourt, who later used the pseudonym Châtillon-Plessis. Its first issue appeared as a supplement to '' La Petite Revue illustrée: littéraire, artistique et gastronomique'' in January 1883. Its editors and contributors included Philéas Gilbert,

Auguste Escoffier Georges Auguste Escoffier (; 28 October 1846 – 12 February 1935) was a French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer who popularized and updated traditional French cooking methods. Much of Escoffier's technique was based on that of Marie-Antoi ...

, and other leading chefs. In the 1890s, it was edited by Châtillon-Plessis and became "the leading professional culinary journal in the world", with contributors across Europe and North America, and a claimed readership of 10,000. During the

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, it was published irregularly, and after the war, it lost prestige and contributors, including Escoffier, Gilbert, and

Prosper Montagné Prosper Montagné (; 14 November 1865 – 22 April 1948) was one of the most renowned French chefs of the Belle Époque and author of many books and articles on food, cooking, and gastronomy, notably Larousse Gastronomique (1938), an encyclopedic ...

, to '' La Revue culinaire''. Its last issue was in 1953.Bibliothèque Nationale de France
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Starting in 1894, Escoffier contributed recipes and model menus to each issue: "L'école des menus: étude et composition de menus modernes à la maison, à l'hôtel, et au restaurant". The magazine was originally the organ of the Union Universelle pour le Progrès de l'Art Culinaire, founded earlier in 1882, and became the organ of the Société des Cuisiniers français pour le Progrès de l'Art Culinaire (nominally the Paris section of the Union) in 1883. The Union and the Société had three goals: publishing a journal to disseminate the latest ideas; establishing a professional

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in Paris; and promoting culinary competitions (''concours culinaires''). The cooking school was finally established in 1891 on

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, but failed in 1894. The first competition was held in December 1882, before the magazine was launched, the second in November 1883, and thereafter it was held annually in January. It inspired cooking competitions in

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(1884),

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(1885),

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(1887), and New York (before 1892).

Bibliography

* Stephen Mennell, ''All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present'', 1996, , p. 169–177

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