Julia Child

This isn't just any cookery book. It is Mastering the Art of French Cooking, first published in 1961, and it's a book that is a statement, not of culinary intent, but of aspiration, a commitment to a certain sort of good life, a certain sort of world-view; a votive object implying taste and appetite...

In 1961 Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle, collaborating on the first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, began a virtual revolution in American cookery. In the years that have passed, as their book has found its way into almost 700,000 American families, and as Julia Chil...

Julia Child single-handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking, with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef. But as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first thing about cooking when she landed in France. Indeed...

The sequel to the classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. It has a brilliant selection of recipes that will not only add to the repertory but will, above all, bring the reader to a yet higher level of mastering the art of French cooking. Among its many treasures: the first authentic, successful...

This is the classic cookbook, in its entirety - all 524 recipes. 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 pe...

How many minutes should you cook green beans- Is it better to steam them or to boil them- What are the right proportions for a vinaigrette- How do you skim off fat- What is the perfect way to roast a chicken- Julia Child gave us extensive answers to all these questions-and so many ...

A delightful treasure trove of the baking wisdom of Julia Child, America's foremost culinary authority, covering everything from breads and pastries (both sweet and savory) to cakes and cookies. Review Whatever the objectives of the television series may have been, the book, written by Dorie G...

"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 be...

When Julia Child arrived in Paris in 1948, a 'six-foot-two-inch, thirty-six-year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian, she spoke barely a few words of French and didn't know the first thing about cooking. 'What's a shallot?' she asked her husband Paul, as they waited for their sole meuniere du...

This title features soups from the garden, bisques from the sea, famous fish stews from Provence and Normandy, the real French crunchy bread, meats, vegetables and desserts in variety, all accompanied by step-by-step instructions and superb illustrations, and all in imperial units for British cooks....

"This isn't just any cookery book. It is "Mastering the Art of French Cooking", first published in 1961, and it's a book that is a statement, not of culinary intent, but of aspiration, a commitment to a certain sort of good life, a certain sort of world-view; a votive object implying taste and appet...

"This isn't just any cookery book. It is "Mastering the Art of French Cooking", first published in 1961, and it's a book that is a statement, not of culinary intent, but of aspiration, a commitment to a certain sort of good life, a certain sort of world-view; a votive object implying taste and appet...

"This isn't just any cookery book. It is "Mastering the Art of French Cooking", first published in 1961, and it's a book that is a statement, not of culinary intent, but of aspiration, a commitment to a certain sort of good life, a certain sort of world-view; a votive object implying taste and appet...

In this magnificent new cookbook, illustrated with full color throughout, Julia Child give us her magnum opus--the distillation of a lifetime of cooking. And she has an important message for Americans today. . .--to the health-conscious: make a habit of good "home" cooking so that you know you are w...

A National Bestseller Winner of an International Association of Culinary Professionals Award for Literary Food Writing "An absorbing portrait of an unexpected friendship." -- "Entertainment Weekly" "Julia's inimitable voice shines through . . . These letters offer [a] glimpse of how the truly great ...