**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The definitive cookbook on French
cuisine for American readers: "What a cookbook should be: packed with
sumptuous recipes, detailed instructions, and precise line drawings.
Some of the instructions look daunting, but as Child herself says in the
introduction, 'If you can read, you can cook.'" --*Entertainment
Weekly
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"I only wish that I had written it myself." --James Beard
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Featuring 524 delicious recipes and over 100 instructive illustrations
to guide readers every step of the way, Mastering the Art of French
Cooking offers something for everyone, from seasoned experts to
beginners who love good food and long to reproduce the savory delights
of French cuisine.
Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle break down the classic
foods of France into a logical sequence of themes and variations rather
than presenting an endless and diffuse catalogue of dishes--from
historic Gallic masterpieces to the seemingly artless perfection of a
dish of spring-green peas. Throughout, 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.
"Julia has slowly but surely altered our way of thinking about food. She
has taken the fear out of the term 'haute cuisine.' She has increased
gastronomic awareness a thousandfold by stressing the importance of good
foundation and technique, and she has elevated our consciousness to the
refined pleasures of dining." --Thomas Keller, The French Laundry
