There might conceivably be another reason for colouring books outselling cookery books across the Channel, of course: if the average French person's anyone like me (and most of my friends and colleagues), we've got more cookery books than we know what to do with. (And personally, it's very much a case of 'books do furnish a kitchen', since when pushed to cook something, I generally go straight to my iPad and do a recipe search based on what I've actually got in the fridge).