Status
Available
Collection
Publication
Knopf (2023), 496 pages
Description
Based on the highly successful TV series of over 100 programs, this is an excellent introduction to traditional French cooking. The author's The Way to Cook (1989) is a more general introduction to French cooking with more standard recipes.
User reviews
LibraryThing member dianaleez
This the book I used to learn to cook - a few simple recipes carefully explained. Well done, Julia!
LibraryThing member lilithcat
Julia Child taught me how to cook. She taught me to enjoy cooking, to have fun with it. This book is based on the cooking series that started it all, The French Chef. No one has ever matched it.
LibraryThing member LisaMaria_C
This isn't the cookbook with which Child revolutionized how Americans cook--Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Rather, it's a companion book to her PBS show of the same name. As it says in the back cover, it "puts in print, session by session, dish by dish, every recipe Julia Child has
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demonstrated on the first series of television programs." It's organized by "Show Number" from 14 to 134. (The first 13 shows no longer exist--the tapes had deteriorated but later shows repeated almost all that material.) As Child writes, the book covers everything from "sauces, stews, and meats to appetizers, vegetables, desserts, cakes and pastries, and from the very simple to the fairly complicated." A subject guide and index makes it easy to locate dishes. It makes a superb lesson in how to cook, even if many recipes would make a cardiologist weep. If I have any complaint, it's that I didn't get this in a more sturdy hardcover. Show Less
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1968-04 (Knopf)
1968-07 (Cook Book Guild)
1971-11 (Bantam mass market paperback)
Physical description
496 p.; 9.31 inches
ISBN
0593537475 / 9780593537473