Jean-Baptiste Reboul

Jean-Baptiste Reboul

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Marius Reboul (born April 12, 1862 in La Roquebrussanne , Département Var , † 1926 in Marseille ) was a French chef . He made a name for himself by collecting the recipes of Provencal cuisine and making them widely known.

Reboul learned the cooking trade in hotels in Montreux on Lake Geneva before moving to Marseille in 1884. For a few years he changed his place of work seasonally between Switzerland and Provence before he finally settled in Marseille. He was head chef at the Hôtel de Castille and the Hôtel du Luxembourg , and after 1900 he became a chef in the home of the famous Prat-Noilly family. Here he seems to have stayed for the rest of his career.

Reboul collected the Provencal recipes in his handbook La Cuisinière provençale , the first edition of which in 1897 was an instant success. He sent a copy of the sixth edition from 1910 to the poet Frédéric Mistral ; he gave it to the Museon Arlaten , a Provencal cultural museum in Arles , founded in 1896 , and asked Reboule to add the names of the dishes in Provençal . This happened in the following editions.

The cookbook includes 1,120 recipes and 365 menus . Since then, it has appeared in 24 editions (a total of 250,000 copies), is still in demand and is regularly reissued to this day, also in revised versions.

Works

• The Provencal cook (original title: La Cuisinière provençale ). 1897 ISBN 2-263-02209-0

literature

• Edmond Neirinck: Histoire de la cuisine et des cuisiniers: techniques culinaires et pratiques de table, en France, du Moyen-Age à nos jours . Paris: 1988, p. 128