Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume One

For this special edition, Julia Child has written a Introduction that recalls the nascent food scene in America at the time of the book s original publication. Forty years ago, Mastering the Art of French Cooking ignited America s passion for good food, and brought that food into our homes. 100 illustrations. 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  more