Art Bites: Inside Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Recipe Collection.
Viewing Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s shadowy scenes of louche Parisian cafes and nightclubs, you get the sense of a man pursuing a pleasure-filled existence. But to truly understand his sybaritic-leaning lifestyle, it is necessary to peruse The Art of Cuisine, an exhilarating cookbook that his longtime friend, the art dealer Maurice Joyant, published in a limited edition soon after the death of the artist in 1901, at the age 36.