The Way to Cook: A Cookbook

ISBN: 0679747656

Author: Child, Julia

Condition: Used

Julia Childs most inspiring, creative, and instructive cookbook, The Way to Cook is a testament to the satisfactions of good home cooking by the incomparable author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking.In this one-of-a-kind cookbook,Julia Child distills a lifetime of cooking into 800 recipes emphasizing lightness, freshness, and simplicity. Chapters are structured around master recipes, followed by innumerable variations that are easily made once the basics are understood. For example, make Julias simple but impeccably prepared saut of chicken, and before long you're easily whipping up Chicken with Mushrooms and Cream, Chicken Provenale, Chicken Piprade, or Chicken Marengo. Or master her perfect broiled butterflied chicken, and youll soon be including Deviled Rabbit or Split Cornish Game Hens Broiled with Cheese on your menu.Here home cooks will find a treasure trove of poultry and fish recipes, as well as a vast array of fresh vegetables prepared in new ways, along with bread doughs and delicious indulgences, such as Caramel Apple Mountain or a Queen of Sheba Chocolate Almond Cake with Chocolate Leaves. And if you want to know how a finished dish should look or how to angle your knife or to fashion a pretty rosette on a cake, there are more than 600 color photographs to entice and instruct you along the way.