Mapie de Toulouse-Lautrec

Marie Pierre "Mapie" de Toulouse-Lautrec (1901–1972) was a French journalist and food writer, born Marie Pierre Adélaïde Lévêque de Vilmorin in Verrières-le-Buisson, scion of the Vilmorin seed company.

Mapie de Toulouse-Lautrec 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.

She invented the detachable recipe card for that magazine (see the biographical link below, supplied by her publisher).

In 1961 she collected most of them in a book called La cuisine de Mapie.