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Article: Ginette Mathiot, best-selling cookbook author, dead at 91
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- June 16, 1998
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AP Online
06-16-1998
PARIS (AP) _ Ginette Mathiot, the best-selling French author of millions of cookbooks sold worldwide, is dead at age 91.
Mathiot died Sunday in a retirement home in Paris, the publisher Albin Michel said. No cause of death was given.
Her ``Je Sais Cuisiner,'' (I know how to cook) was a bible for generations of French homemakers preparing everything from lobster bisque to crepe suzette.
First published in 1932, it sold more than 5 million copies, translated into English, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Serbo-Croatian and Japanese.
She also published a variety of books on bread, pastry, canning - even recipes for camping trips.
Her success was due in part to ...
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...This book cover released by Phaidon Press shows "I Know How To Cook", by Ginette Mathiot. (AP Photo/Phaidon Press)
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