Cookbook Recipe Book Porcelain Limoges Box

A family cookbook, the kind with stained pages and handwritten notes in the margins, takes shape here in porcelain. This hand-painted Limoges box, made in Limoges, France, honors every kitchen where favorite recipes are passed down.

Grandmother's Secret Recipes

Every family has a book or a box of cards that holds the dishes everyone asks for at holidays. This little recipe book celebrates that tradition, painted by hand so its cover and details vary slightly from one book to another.

Kitchen Shelf Classics

Stand it on a kitchen windowsill, a shelf among real cookbooks or a counter beside the bread box. It pairs well with teapot, rolling pin, chef and roaster pieces, making a small culinary scene that suits farmhouse and modern kitchens alike.

For the Family Cook

• Hand-painted porcelain from Limoges, France
• A meaningful present for a mother or grandmother who feeds everyone
• A fun thank-you for a chef, cooking teacher or food writer

Newlyweds starting a first kitchen and graduates moving into their own place also appreciate it as a reminder of the meals they grew up with.

Porcelain has been made in Limoges since the late 1700s, after kaolin, a fine white clay, turned up near Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche in 1768.