Volume One (Fortieth - 40th - Anniversary Edition)
Alfred A. Knopf
October 2001
On Sale: October 16, 2001
752 pages ISBN: 0375413405 EAN: 9780375413407 Hardcover Add to Wish List
“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 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 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 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.
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