false 129650 8 <i>Mastering the Art of French Cooking</i> 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 one hundred 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 U.S.A., that reproduce the exact taste and texture of the French ingredients: equivalent meat cuts, for example; the right beans for a cassoulet; the appropriate fish and shellfish 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 <i>Mastering the Art of French Cooking</i>, 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. 2897158 1961 Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Vol. 1) total:588|5:325|4:190|3:67|2:5|1:1| 588 2597 1043 106 4 1 false false Fri Nov 09 10:48:39 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 09 10:48:39 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 04 20:23:41 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 20:31:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Jan 24 12:37:07 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 12:38:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 14 10:50:15 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 10:54:12 -0700 2009 1. Plenty of face smoothing make-up (that is, if they are the "look don't touch" types)
2. Wear your best (depending on if your father-in-law-to-be is a pervert or not, wear something slimming and fantastic)
3. NO: hemming, hawing, donke...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1973 Sun Feb 15 22:30:42 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 23:13:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jan 09 12:50:35 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 15:30:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 13:09:30 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 13:14:21 -0700 2009 Actually, I was thinking of cooking every recipe in this book over the course of a year and blog about it, then get a book deal. Then I could get Nora Ephron to write the screenplay for a movie about m...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Tue Mar 31 06:24:10 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 06:29:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 18 23:22:57 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 23:24:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 20:17:15 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 20:19:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 00:45:45 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 00:47:49 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 15 08:26:17 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 08:36:14 -0700 2009 1 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 12:58:31 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 13:01:18 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Aug 25 07:35:53 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 07:39:44 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jun 11 13:08:48 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 13:09:45 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 16:34:25 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 16:35:06 -0800 2009
I haven't made anything from this book, but I really enjoy flipping through it. I learn a lot from it, and it's a great thing to have if you're a fan of The French Chef TV show, like I am. ]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 13 20:53:03 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 05:55:07 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun May 03 07:05:52 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 07:07:19 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 04:20:03 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 04:21:28 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Feb 11 07:34:33 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 07:35:30 -0800 2009