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Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume 1
by Julia Child
ISBN-10: 0394533992
ISBN-13: 9780394533995
ISBN-13: 9780394533995
Region: France
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date: October, 1983
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About Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume 1
Publisher Web Link: http://knopf.knopfdoubleday.com/
This is the classic cookbook, in its entirety—all 524 recipes.
“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 more than 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 100 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 United States, that reproduce the exact taste and texture of the French ingredients, for example, equivalent meat cuts, the right beans for a cassoulet, or the appropriate fish and seafood 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. Bon appétit! (http://www.randomhouse.com/)
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About Julia Child
Julia Child was an American chef, author and television personality, who introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream, through her many cookbooks and television programs.
Julia Child grew up in California but spent most of her adult life in Cambridge Massachusetts until 2001 when she retired back to California donating her famous kitchen to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, where it is now on display.
Julia’s culinary endeavor’s began in 1949 when she and husband Paul Child moved to Paris. Julia repeatedly recalled her first meal in Rouen of oysters, sole meunière and fine wine as a culinary revelation. She described the experience once in The New York Times as “an opening up of the soul and spirit for me”. While in Paris, she attended Le Cordon Bleu and thus the career of a Legend was launched.
Although she has numerous books and television series to her credit, her most famous works are the 1961 cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and the television series The French Chef, which premiered in 1963 as an instant national hit and ran for ten years winning many Peabody and Emmy Awards. In the decades that followed Julia hosted many other television series including Julia & Company, Cooking with Master Chefs, Dinner at Julia’s, Julia Child and Jacques Pepin Cooking at Home and many more.
Among her many accolades Julia received the French Legion of Honor in 2000 and the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003. Julia also received an honorary doctorate from Harvard University and even graced the cover of Time Magazine.
On August 13, 2004 Julia Child passed away at the age of 91. Julia Child changed the way America eats, instilling passion into the food culture of the United States and much of the world.
This August, a film adaptation, titled Julie & Julia, also based on Julia Child’s biography, My Life in France, sees 2009 Academy Award nominee Amy Adams cast in the role of Julie Powell. (http://www.cordonbleu.edu/)
