Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One (1) (Fortieth - 40th - Anniversary Edition)

Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One (1) (Fortieth - 40th - Anniversary Edition)
by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck

Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One (1) (Fortieth - 40th - Anniversary Edition)
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Author: Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck
Illustrator: Sidonie Coryn
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-10-16
ISBN: 0375413405
Number of pages: 752
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

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Book Review: A true French Chef
Summary: 5 Stars

Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One (1) (Fortieth - 40th - Anniversary Edition)
After reading My Life in France, I immediately bought Mastering the Art of French Cooking. I am no longer intimidated by French cooking thanks to Julia!!

Summary of Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One (1) (Fortieth - 40th - Anniversary Edition)

"Anyone can cook in the French manner anywhere," wrote Mesdames Beck, Bertholle, and Child, "with the right instruction." And here is the book that, for forty years, has been teaching Americans how.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking is for both seasoned cooks and beginners who love good food and long to reproduce at home the savory delights of the classic cuisine, from the historic Gallic masterpieces to the seemingly artless perfection of a dish of spring-green peas. This beautiful book, with more than one hundred instructive illustrations, is revolutionary in its approach because:

.?It leads the cook infallibly from the buying and handling of raw ingredients, through each essential step of a recipe, to the final creation of a delicate confection.
.?It breaks down the classic cuisine into a logical sequence of themes and variations rather than presenting an endless and diffuse catalogue of recipes; the focus is on key recipes that form the backbone of French cookery and lend themselves to an infinite number of elaborations-bound to increase anyone's culinary repertoire.
.?It adapts classical techniques, wherever possible, to modern American conveniences.
.?It shows Americans how to buy products, from any supermarket in the U.S.A., that reproduce the exact taste and texture of the French ingredients: equivalent meat cuts, for example; the right beans for a cassoulet; the appropriate fish and shellfish for a bouillabaisse.
.?It offers suggestions for just the right accompaniment to each dish, including proper wines.

Since there has never been a book as instructive and as workable as Mastering the Art of French Cooking, the techniques learned here can be applied to recipes in all other French cookbooks, making them infinitely more usable. In compiling the secrets of famous cordons bleus, the authors have produced a magnificent volume that is sure to find the place of honor in every kitchen in America.

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