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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Of the various Julia Child cookbooks that I own, I go to this one more than any other. It is a wonderful compendium of recipes, wisdom, and colorfully presented. (  ) fpentlin | Jan 28, 2009 |  Sometimes Julia just assumes we have a completely stocked kitchen with every gadget imaginable....still, this is a useful cookbook to have around. (  ) girljedi | Nov 19, 2008 | This was my treat to myself about eight Christmases ago. I love to cook (and, unfortunately to eat my own cooking ) and I was throwing a dinner party for six of our closest friends. I wanted to really blow their sock off, some of them are certified chefs, so that isn't easy. Anyway, this cookbook is wonderful, not only do you get recipes, you get tips on how to alter recipes. I've gone through close to a third of the recipes and referred to this book when I've run into difficulty at the stove. If you ever watched Julia Child on TV you know how she talked and worked, the book is absolutely the same. She even takes pot-shots at other cooks and cooking fads. (  ) siubhank | Sep 5, 2007 | This is the kind of cookbook you can actually just read. The photographs are beautiful, plentiful, and helpful. And the book works in the old-fashioned way most hotly marketed cookbooks today don't; you get a master recipe, and then several variations on the theme, or ways to use the master recipe as a part of other dishes. Some of the more elaborate items I haven't had the courage to try (like dripping hot sugar over a broomstick to decorate my yule log). There are a lot of short articles on subjects of all kinds (like the physiological consequences of eating plenty of beans), full of Julia's humor and pragmatism. This gorgeous book will probably be of most use to more experienced cooks with plenty of time and kitchen space. But anyone can learn a great deal about how food works, and you can adapt the size or scale of the recipes to suit your own taste. Comprehensive and lush. (  )2  DawnFinley | Jul 1, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0394532643, Hardcover)With The Way to Cook, Julia Child creates a second culinary classic. Her first, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, introduced a generation of those used to preparing simple fare to what was then considered gourmet food, demystified classic techniques, and raised our culinary consciousness. In The Way to Cook, she also demystifies cooking techniques and does some consciousness-raising. This time, though, she speaks to everyone with little or no experience in the kitchen, which is most people these days. Always in tune with the moment, and ever the gracious realist, Child (although calling her Julia seems reasonable since she treats us with such open informality) explains in The Way to Cook how to boil an egg and stuff it, as well as how to make a perfect omelet and an elegant soufflé.To help out readers who lack the most basic knowledge, she organizes the book by techniques rather than by ingredients. Soups are first, a relatively unintimidating choice to build confidence through delicious results such as true French Onion Soup and a contemporary Black Bean Gazpacho. Next come breads, updated to use a food processor to cut the kneading time. The fish chapter covers broiling a salmon steak and creating a sophisticated Crown Mousse of Trout. Chapters on poultry, meats, vegetables, and desserts are equally ample and wide-ranging. When The Way to Cook was published in 1989, it accompanied a television series. A related set of videotapes, the first to teach cooking comprehensively, was offered simultaneously. However, more than 600 color photos in this book make it fully complete on its own. The Way to Cook is a good reference volume, a useful gift, and a handsome way to follow Julia's career as she transformed from a French classicist to the ever-evolving, always clear and reliable teacher we have come to adore. --Dana Jacobi (retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:31:26 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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