Omelet Cookbook Rochard Limoges Box

Butter in the pan, eggs whisked and a fold at just the right moment: this porcelain cookbook is devoted to the humble omelet. Rochard made it as a hand-painted Limoges box in Limoges, France, where the omelet is a point of national pride.

Crack, Whisk and Fold

Every cook learns the omelet early and spends years trying to perfect it. This Rochard piece salutes that classic dish with a book shape that looks right at home among real recipe collections. The cover and its lettering are painted entirely by hand.

Chef's Bookshelf

• A Rochard design from its porcelain book series
• Fits a kitchen, cooking or library collection
• Groups with other book shaped boxes and kitchen pieces

Brunch Host Honors

This makes a clever present for a culinary school graduate, a chef opening a breakfast spot, or the friend who throws the best Sunday brunch. Stand it upright between cookbooks on the kitchen shelf and let guests find it on their own, or set it on a counter beside the egg basket. It also suits someone heading off on a culinary trip to France.

A Hard-Paste Heritage

The porcelain that forms this book is hard-paste, the kind fired at very high heat in Limoges, which gives the region's work its crisp, bright white surface.