Gisele Mardon Cookery Collection Manuscripts
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Gisele Mardon Cookery Collection Manuscripts
Classmark: MS 2326
Date(s): 1940s - 2000s
Language: English; French; Multiple languages
Size and medium: 6 boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/783274
Collection group(s): Cookery Collection
Description
The Gisele Mardon Cookery Collection Manuscripts consist of approximately 300 menus, many from distinguished chefs and restuarants, collected and compiled by Gisele Mardon in 6 large scrapbooks.
They also include 1 box of manuscript recipe notebooks, chiefly written by Mardon herself.
Biography or history
Gisele Antoinette Mardon (née Bertrand) was born in 1930 in Paris. Following the Second World War she studied English, Old English, and English and American Literature at the Sorbonne. While studying she dined weekly at Laperouse, a three star Michelin restaurant in Paris, of which her godfather, Roger Topolinski, was the proprietor.
In 1983 Gisele Mardon won second and fifth place in the France-wide 'Cuisine et Vins' competition held at La Varenne, a pre-eminent cookery school in Paris. After working as a French teacher and interpreter, she taught cookery for adults for London City Council, and taught at the independent London cookery school La Cuisine.
Provenance
The Gisele Mardon Collection was gifted to Leeds University Libraries in 2019 by her husband John.
System of arrangement
Arrangement follows Mardon's own filing system where possible.
Access and usage
Reproduction
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On our website
Collection guide: Cookery Collection
The Cookery collection dates from 1487 to the 21st century. It is made up of nearly 10,000 printed volumes and contains over 140 manuscript recipe and household books.