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Books: Cooking by Cuisine -> Cooking French
Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume One
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by:
CHILD, JULIA
BERTHOLLE, LOUISETTE
BECK, SIMONE
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Publisher:
Knopf
Published: October 16, 2001
ISBN: 0375413405
Format:Hardcover
Pages:752
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Book Description
Review
"Has it really been 40 years since Julia Child rescued Americans from dreary casseroles? This reissue, clad in a handsome red jacket, is 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
Product Description:
"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:
and#8226;and#160;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.
and#8226;and#160;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.
and#8226;and#160;It adapts classical techniques, wherever possible, to modern American conveniences.
and#8226;and#160;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.
and#8226;and#160;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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