Mapie de Toulouse-Lautrec

Marie Pierre "Mapie" de Toulouse-Lautrec (1901–1972) was a French journalist and food writer.

Life and career

Mapie de Toulouse-Lautrec, born Adélaïde Lévêque de Vilmorin in Verrières-le-Buisson. Louise de Vilmorin (1902–1969) was her younger sister. After her first marriage ended in 1932, she married comte Guillaume de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa (1902–1955), a cousin of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

She started her career in journalism at Fémina magazine, where she had a society column, and wrote theatre reviews. After the war, Hélène Lazareff hired her as cookery columnist for Elle (magazine). She invented the detachable recipe card for that magazine (see the biographical link below, supplied by her publisher).

Her recipes are elegant and original, and of an alluring simplicity. In 1967 she collected most of them in a book called La cuisine de Mapie. This collection was reprinted in 2004, with a preface by her daughter Adélaïde.

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Date of birth	1901
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Date of death	1972
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