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The Way to Cook |
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The Way to Cook |
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by: Julia Child
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5 EAN: 9780679747659 ISBN: 0679747656 Label: Knopf Languages: Manufacturer: Knopf Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 528 Publication Date: September 28, 1993 Publisher: Knopf Release Date: September 28, 1993 Studio: Knopf Editorial Review: Product Description: "Julia Child's . . . seventh book, The Way to Cook, is her magnus opus . . . the biggest and most comprehensive collection of Child recipes and comments . . . (with) the same warm, generous, informal approach that has made her the most celebrated cook in America."--Phyllis Hanes, Christian Science Monitor. 600 full-color photos. Amazon.com Review: 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 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Splendid - If you can own only ONE Julia Child cookbook, THIS IS THE ONE YOU NEED!In the wake of the recent media attention (movies, books, ect), many of us are discovering Julia Child - perhaps again, perhaps (like me) for the first time. As a result, many have bought her sublime first cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, myself included. And I admit I do not regret that purchase - it is definitely worth owning. That said, Mrs. Child has so much more to offer in her following cookbooks, especially THIS one. I recently inherited this cookbook from my mother-in-law, who was purging her own cookbook collection (she no longer cooks very much), and I couldn't put it down! I read it from cover to cover, I kid you not! Beautiful picture tutorials, simple (though not always easy) techniques and tips, and wonderful recipe variations centered upon a master recipe, yet easier to follow then MTAFC. And, in addition to some for her classic french recipes included in previous cookbooks, she includes American regional favorites like New England Clam Chowder, just to name one of many. The soup and seafood sections alone are worth buying the book (if you like those sort of things, which I do). And, again, Julia shows us how to do it with regular ingredients - not necessarily CHEAP ingredients (lobster, for instance), but things easily found in a regular market. I highly recommend this cookbook! Rating: - Awesome cookbookThis is a great cookbook, my first Julia Child cookbook. It has "a little bit of everything" in it and the recipes are DELICIOUS. I have been cooking for a long time now, so I would recomend it to anyone that loves cooking, no matter how skilled (or not) you are. Rating: - My cooking BibleThank you, Thank you, Thank you Julia Child for teaching me how to cook! I no longer dread having people for dinner, but actually love it. And my dinners are no longer a repetitive sequence of three-four same meals every day. It might not be the easiest book to cook from, you have to flip pages sometimes to get all the parts of the recipe, but it does teach you about food and the ways of preparing it, and it does boil everything down to a number of techniques that you end up using to create your own recipes and combinations. Her approach is straightforward, most of the recipes are quick to do and will be suitable for your family dinner as well as a more formal one. And best of all: I haven't yet had one recipe that wasn't an absolute delight, and I tried a lot of them already. And I finally get to buy all the veggies that I thought were long and hard to prepare; beets, turnips, celery roots, artichokes,they are all regularly on my table now, ready in no time. Rating: - Julia Child-The Way To CookThe shipment was prompt and the book was as described. It was a good shopping experience.
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