A Great Kitchen Guide and Fun for Family | The Way to Cook

Splendid - If you can own only ONE Julia Child cookbook, THIS IS THE ONE YOU NEED! | The Way to Cook | Julia Child

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	• The Way to Cook Julia Child Knopf, 1993 - 528 pages average customer review:based on 79 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Basic to advanced knowledge

I have been watching cooking shows, collecting cook books, reading articles for many years now, trying to find out how to cook well. All of these sources provided useful information and I was slowly getting better but there were still too many voids in my knowledge to feel that I had control of what I was doing in the kitchen.

"The Way to Cook" has solved my lack of knowledge about cooking each time I have come up against another unknown, with one caveat - information on a particular subject is often scattered - you must read ALL referenced pages to whatever your subject is. For instance: making your own chicken stock is referenced on four pages - they are not redundant - read them all and you will have a good idea of what you should do to have chicken stock you are not afraid to consume (and it is tastier that store bought).

The index is the best I have seen in any book, regardless of subject. The book was relatively expensive, but save yourself a lot of money in the long run - buy this one (get the hardcover version - it will see a lot of usage) and then stop.

I used the free shipping option here at Amazon and the book got here 4 days before the target date, a most pleasant surprise!

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A Great Kitchen Guide and Fun for Family

This is a fantastic book. Our family has experimented with recipes that we would never have dared to find the results outstanding! I find myself using it quite often as a reference and plan to give a copy to our daughter when she moves out on her own.

Well worth the money.

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Splendid - If you can own only ONE Julia Child cookbook, THIS IS THE ONE YOU NEED!

In the wake of the recent media attention (movies, books, ect), many of us are discovering Julia Child - perhaps again, perhaps (like me) for the first time. As a result, many have bought her sublime first cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, myself included. And I admit I do not regret that purchase - it is definitely worth owning. That said, Mrs. Child has so much more to offer in her following cookbooks, especially THIS one.

I recently inherited this cookbook from my mother-in-law, who was purging her own cookbook collection (she no longer cooks very much), and I couldn't put it down! I read it from cover to cover, I kid you not! Beautiful picture tutorials, simple (though not always easy) techniques and tips, and wonderful recipe variations centered upon a master recipe, yet easier to follow then MTAFC. And, in addition to some for her classic french recipes included in previous cookbooks, she includes American regional favorites like New England Clam Chowder, just to name one of many. The soup and seafood sections alone are worth buying the book (if you like those sort of things, which I do). And, again, Julia shows us how to do it with regular ingredients - not necessarily CHEAP ingredients (lobster, for instance), but things easily found in a regular market.

I highly recommend this cookbook!

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My cooking Bible

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Julia Child for teaching me how to cook! I no longer dread having people for dinner, but actually love it. And my dinners are no longer a repetitive sequence of three-four same meals every day. It might not be the easiest book to cook from, you have to flip pages sometimes to get all the parts of the recipe, but it does teach you about food and the ways of preparing it, and it does boil everything down to a number of techniques that you end up using to create your own recipes and combinations. Her approach is straightforward, most of the recipes are quick to do and will be suitable for your family dinner as well as a more formal one. And best of all: I haven't yet had one recipe that wasn't an absolute delight, and I tried a lot of them already. And I finally get to buy all the veggies that I thought were long and hard to prepare; beets, turnips, celery roots, artichokes,they are all regularly on my table now, ready in no time.

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Awesome cookbook

This is a great cookbook, my first Julia Child cookbook. It has "a little bit of everything" in it and the recipes are DELICIOUS. I have been cooking for a long time now, so I would recomend it to anyone that loves cooking, no matter how skilled (or not) you are.

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