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From: Amazon
Posted: Sep-29-2009

The Best Cookbook, Ever

I just bought my third copy of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. 1" because I've used my first two editions so heavily over the years that they fell apart and had to be replaced.Like Julie Reed, I started with leek and potato soup and worked my way through the book from there (no, I...

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Posted: Sep-29-2009

You'll throw out all your other cookbooks!

Julia Child is brilliant in the layout of this fabulous cookbook. The sidenotes suggesting drinks and accompanying side dishes with each recipe is marvelous. If I'd never known what a wisk or oven-proof dish was, I could place a meal before friends and family that would bring a round of applause...

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Posted: Sep-28-2009

Mastering the Art of French Cooking

Excellent book with lots of great, easy to use recipes. Bought this book for my wife after seeing the movie, Julie and Julia...looking forward to tasting the results!

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Posted: Sep-27-2009

Mastering the art of french cooking

Book is exacially what I wanted. Although it was used, the book was in great shape and a great price.

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Posted: Sep-27-2009

A classic

After seeing the movie, Julie and Julia, I had to have this book. I don't know if I will ever use it but I had to have it on my shelf. I have challenged myself to read it and try out some of the recipes that might appeal to our family. I am not a cookbook critic...I am an ordinary housewife...

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Posted: Aug-02-2009

The Masters Tour

The combination of Child and Rombauer cannot be beaten. These two extra- "ordinary" women laid claim to and then made accessible to us (who were raised, however gratefully, on dinners of tomato-macaroni hotdish, tuna casserole, and meatloaf with baked potatoes and frozen green peas) an entirely...

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Posted: Aug-01-2009

Excellent Book for the Advanced or Beginner

I have to say, I cannot cook. I am simply awful, "hit and miss" at best. This book can change that. Child's book effectively "demystifies" French cooking, which as any gourmand can tell you, is often little more than very delicious, basic recipies that are sometimes "dressed up." Most of the...

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Posted: Jul-26-2009

"If you're afraid of butter, as many people are nowadays, just put in cream!"

The movie "Julie & Julia" is built around the astonishing idea that a fan of "Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One" would cook her way through the book's almost-600 recipes in a single year. I've been using this book for three decades and I've only made a fraction of the recipes. But...

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Posted: Jul-06-2009

The book that rewrote the book

There is not a single bad thing to say about this book. The team of Beck, Bertholle, and Child literally changed the way cookbooks are written, rethought the whole concept from the ground up, and sacrificed comprehensiveness for quality to create a book so epic that it changed the direction of...

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Posted: Jun-10-2009

Met all my expectations

I bought volume one and volume two of this timeless masterpiece. I've never done any French cooking before. Thanks to the authors I was able to make dishes that far surpassed anything I've made before. Some of the recipes were incredibly simple to make (ex. Quiche Lorraine) and were much tastier...

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