Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Two-volume set)
by Julia Child 
, Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Collections and Selections — Set 1-2)
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Explains for the novice American cook the special ingredients and cooking techniques involved in preparing the wide variety of French dishes featured.Tags
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The Bible for all cooks.
I may start with Potage Parmentier, but I doubt I will be making every recipe and blogging about it as in "Julie and Julia". Potage Parmentier is a favorite, and easy recipe (Potato and leek soup). Julia Child leads the cook through kitchen equipment, sauces, stocks, and basic pastry recipes to elegant complex dishes.
I also recommend reading "My Life in France" by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme which traces the work that went into writing this cookbook and how it led to her TV show on public television.
I wonder if we would have Food Network now if it hadn't been for this book that changed how we cook and how we think about food. Remember the popularity of frozen TV dinners?
I may start with Potage Parmentier, but I doubt I will be making every recipe and blogging about it as in "Julie and Julia". Potage Parmentier is a favorite, and easy recipe (Potato and leek soup). Julia Child leads the cook through kitchen equipment, sauces, stocks, and basic pastry recipes to elegant complex dishes.
I also recommend reading "My Life in France" by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme which traces the work that went into writing this cookbook and how it led to her TV show on public television.
I wonder if we would have Food Network now if it hadn't been for this book that changed how we cook and how we think about food. Remember the popularity of frozen TV dinners?
Worth the five stars just for the basics. A true bible.
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Julia Child was born in Pasadena, California on August 15, 1912. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Smith College in 1934 and served with the Office of Strategic Services in East Asia during World War II. After the war, Child lived in Paris for six years, attending the famous Cordon Bleu cooking school. After graduating from show more cooking school, Child opened her own culinary institute called, L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes with her friends Simone Bech and Louisette Bertholle. She achieved critical acclaim with her first cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking which was first published in 1961 and is still in print today and helped to popularized French cuisine in America. Starting in 1963, Child hosted the first of many award winning cooking series on PBS, where she was best known for her exuberant personality and flamboyant cooking style. Her other books include The French Chef Cookbook; From Julia Child's Kitchen; and The Way to Cook. She also filmed an instructional video series on cooking and wrote columns for various magazines and newspapers. She died of kidney failure on August 13, 2004 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Two-volume set) (Two-volume set)
- Original title
- Mastering the Art of French Cooking; Mastering the art of French cooking
- Original publication date
- Mastering the Art of French Cooking, 1961; 1981; Mastering the Art of French Cooking Vol. 2, 1970
- Important places*
- Frankrijk
- Publisher's editor
- Jones, Judith
- Disambiguation notice
- Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume 1 (1961), and Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume 2 (1970) are substantially different from each other and should not be combined. Neither should the individua... (show all)l volumes be combined with the two volume set, which is comprised of both individual volumes but substantially different than either single book.
ONLY the two volume set should be combined here!!
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