One of three volumes in The Yellow Guides for Epicures series by Curnonsky and Marcel Rouff. Originally published in French under the title La France Gastronomique: Guides des merveilles culinaires et des bonnes auberges françaises, the original consisted of 27 regional “books” published in 13 volumes; the three English-language volumes covered much of the original material, but concentrated on the places the English and Americans frequented. The authors: Curnonsky (nom-de-plume of Maurice Edmond Sailland), was the celebrated Michelin gastronomy writer “honoured throughout France as the Prince of Gourmets”; Marcel Rouff was a poet, essayist and historian who found his gastronomic voice in collaboration with Curnonsky. Together they also wrote the novel La vie et la passion de Dodin-Bouffant, gourmet, translated into English as The Passionate Epicure.