Andrée-Adrienne Mallet-Maze dite La Mazille, cookbook author (1891-1984).
Using the Planèze (in Neuvic sur l’Isle) family home recipe cookbook, La Mazille wrote down the traditional recipes passed on orally that she could collect from her acquaintances in the 1920s. Published by Flammarion in 1929, La bonne cuisine du Périgord is the first cookbook devoted to Périgord gastronomy. The book, constantly republished, often offered to brides, shared the ancestral know-how of the art of « making the most of local products » and contributed greatly to the renown of Périgord cuisine.

Illustrations :

-Photograph by Andrée-Adrienne Mallet-Maze dite La Mazille in the 1930s (© private collection, all rights reserved)
-Photograph of La Mazille in folk costume in 1966 at the Félibrée de Neuvic sur l’Isle. (© private collection, all rights reserved)
-Photo of the house of La Mazille, le Cluzeau, from Planèze to Neuvic-sur-l’Isle. (©Museum André Voulgre)
-Handwritten recipe for La Mazille’s 1928 chicken crapaudine (© private collection, all rights reserved)

Jean-Camille Fulbert-Dumonteil, a food columnist from Vergt

Jean-Camille Fulbert-Dumonteil, food columnist (1831-1912)
This writer (born in Vergt, Périgord) and food columnist for Le Figaro, was the master of the art of good eating between 1860 and 1910. He was the one to name the truffle « black pearl of the Périgord« .

Illustrations :

-A photograph by Jean-Camille Fulbert-Dumonteil in 1906, in La France Gourmande, La librairie universelle, 1906, (cliché Ledray)