Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One
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Revised edition of the classic cookbook, originally published in 1961.Amazon.com Review
Book 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:
• 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.
Julie & Julia is now a major motion picture (releasing in August 2009) starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child. It is partially based on Julia Child’s memoir, My Life in France. Enjoy these images from the film, and click the thumbnails to see larger images. 
Hm. . . Well, I just saw the movie "Julie and Julia", and of course, I can not remember the name of the actress from other, most probably because being in a movie with Meryl Streep is like playing in a band with Gene Krupa, no matter how good you are, you will be eclipsed. Even I learned that you have to dry the meat (in the movie) to get the right brown. For some ridiculous reason, do not appear to have any of his books in B & W, Thomas still in the same mall, and I know that was not the only one who just got out of "Julie and Julia. "I was not able to grab this book so far, I can not cook anything, but I'll go along with everyone else on this for now. I happened to find a few in the store that looked promising in terms of being accessible (ie, none of the things that is hard to find) and easy - for all concerned: Readers' Digest "Only five things" by Rachel Lane, and "a cook anybody," Better Homes and Gardens. This goes down to the simplistic parts of the kitchen if you need that help, and praise, there's nothing terribly wrong with the picture as in other several other times print "Better Homes" cookbooks, the photos do not resemble anything I give my dog, much less a human being. Everything tends to remind me of the hilarious book by James Lileks, "The gallery of regrettable food" (Actual pictures and sarcastic comments of bad things to eat and their accompanying photographs horrible. That's it, "Lilek Interior desecration: Houses of the horrible ugly 70's "never too Fals to cheer, either. In fact, I'm not surprised at all to find one or more of these photos is the best cookbook of households. If the book was selling on terrible photography alone would be out of print, so everyone should use the mother and grandmother, and carry out. I wish you could see inside this children's book. With the economy what it is, I have a hard time justifying [...] plus shipping for a book that maybe it's entertaining reading, but I am curious as to book anyone who took 8 years to write. funny side note: Julia Child kept the Dan Ackroyd's "Saturday Night Live" ; to impersonate her drawing on a tape (!) VCR under the TV for anyone who asked about it, said she found it funny to be described as a little exuberant, and shouting "save the liver!" , while she is bleeding to death. The only problem with most cookbooks I've seen has been that they are very noodles and other carbohydrates. Fats, personally, I have no problem with weight, B / C what's the point of cooking if you use a substance such as margarine disgusting (which I knew he sucked as a child, even)? or anything low fat? But you have to use the cakes, sweets, bread and of course the use of arsenic as a tonic.
Rating: 5 / 5
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How would you like cooking? If you have the right tool and the right ingredients and follow the instructions, how can you go wrong?
Rating: 4 / 5
Is this a true version of the 1960 original version of this book? I am wishing to buy another copy for my son. I do not want a modernized version. In the elderly, Volume I turn to almost any page (s) and you follow the instructions, find recreational-sky eating (unlike eating nutrition heaven). But he warned that this is not for anyone in a hurry, preparations are demanding and sometimes laborious. But the results are wonderful. The only exceptions are (in my humble opinion) of the cake / frosting recipes. Ack.
Rating: 4 / 5
My current, the first hardcover edition of this book, bought last year by mold and mildew in abundance in a junk shop in Kentucky, is in its final stage. I'm waiting for the 50th Anniversery-out, so do not have to search a non-moldy place to hold the book and pull it off the platform more. (The 50th Anniversery edition will also be cheaper, thank God. "Fifty dollars is a ridiculous price for a hardcover).
Rating: 5 / 5