News on France’s Fastest Selling Cookbook
Books on Provence · Guest Post · InspireThis book, with an initial print run of 10,000 in September, sold out in two weeks. It would normally take three years to sell such a number. It sold like hotcakes at Christmas and Hachette have printed 300,000, a record. So what is this phenomenon?
It’s Simplissime, the brain child of Jean-Francois Mallet, his cookbook that aims to simplify French cooking.
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