NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - For sixty years, this has been the definitive cookbook on French cuisine for American readers. It deserves a place of honor in every kitchen. What a cookbook should be: packed with sumptuous recipes, detailed instructions, and precise line drawings. Some of the instructions look daunting, but as Child herself says in the introduction, 'If you can read, you can cook.' -- Entertainment Weekly "I only wish that I had written it myself." --James Beard Featuring 524 delicious recipes ...
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - For sixty years, this has been the definitive cookbook on French cuisine for American readers. It deserves a place of honor in every kitchen. What a cookbook should be: packed with sumptuous recipes, detailed instructions, and precise line drawings. Some of the instructions look daunting, but as Child herself says in the introduction, 'If you can read, you can cook.' -- Entertainment Weekly "I only wish that I had written it myself." --James Beard Featuring 524 delicious recipes and over 100 instructive illustrations to guide readers every step of the way, Mastering the Art of French Cooking offers something for everyone, from seasoned experts to beginners who love good food and long to reproduce the savory delights of French cuisine. Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle break down the classic foods of France into a logical sequence of themes and variations rather than presenting an endless and diffuse catalogue of dishes--from historic Gallic masterpieces to the seemingly artless perfection of a dish of spring-green peas. Throughout, 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. "Julia has slowly but surely altered our way of thinking about food. She has taken the fear out of the term 'haute cuisine.' She has increased gastronomic awareness a thousandfold by stressing the importance of good foundation and technique, and she has elevated our consciousness to the refined pleasures of dining. --Thomas Keller, The French Laundry
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Sidonie Coryn. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Cloth. xxxi, 684, xxxii pages. Glossary. Index. A clean copy with little wear. "The only cookbook that explains how to create authentic French dishes in American kitchens with American foods." Bon appetit!
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Fine in Very Good jacket. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 2009 printing, with the additional paper dustjacket band advertising the movie Julie & Julia. Fine condition, looks and feels new and unread, very tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [40.00] and is in about fine condition with a small and faint smudge to the outer edge of the front inner flap, otherwise fine with no chips or tears. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.
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Used-Very Good. This is the classic cookbook, in its entirety--all 524 recipes. '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 more than 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 100 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 United States, that reproduce the exact taste and texture of the French ingredients, for example, equivalent meat cuts, the right beans for a 'cassoulet, 'or the appropriate fish and seafood 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. 'Bon appetit! ' For this special edition, Julia Child has written a new Introduction that recalls the nascent food scene in America at the time of the book's original publication. Forty years ago, 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' ignited America's passion for good food, and brought that food into our homes. This new edition promises to continue the excitement. 100 illustrations. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.
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Fine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 752 p. Contains: Illustrations. Mastering the Art of French Cooking. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
