text: Ranhofer was the author of The Epicurean , ( 1894 ) , an encyclopedic cookbook of over 1,000 pages , similar in scope to Escoffier 's Le Guide Culinaire .
simplified: Ranhofer wrote The Epicurean , ( 1894 ) , a cookbook of over 1,000 pages , similar in scope to Escoffier 's Le Guide Culinaire .