Download or read book A Guide to Modern Cookery written by Auguste Escoffier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) distinguished himself as an innovative and imaginative chef in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, notably in London's Savoy and Carlton hotels. Reissued here in its 1907 English translation, his influential textbook on haute cuisine was first published in French in 1903.