"The Way to Cook" Review - Julia Child Cookbook Review

Before the age of celebrity food personalities like Martha and Rachael, there was Julia Child. She is the woman who started it all. She brought gourmet cooking into American homes and made it possible for home cooks to learn professional French cooking techniques. In "The Way to Cook", Julia shows you exactly how to really cook.

This essential cookbook shows you step-by-step exactly how to prepare classic dishes and how to execute techniques that will seriously boost your skills in the kitchen. Julia Child's "The Way to Cook" is not a recipe book as much as it is an instructional cooking book that can literally take you from a beginning cook to a budding chef as it walks you through simple steps that build to more expert techniques. Ina Garten even praises this book as she cooked her way through "The Way to Cook" cover to cover when she was first starting out.

Julia Child's now famous reference cookbook is a must-have for anyone who wants a go-to for any and all useful cooking techniques. Many consider it the single most important cookbook to own. That's because Julia Child is straightforward in her explanations, making each recipe extremely easy to follow. The sections of the book divide up as follows:

-Soups
-Breads
-Eggs
-Fin Fish & Shellfish
-Poultry
-Meat
-Vegetables
-Salads
-Pastry Doughs
-Desserts
-Cakes & Cookies

Julia's chapter on eggs is particularly informative as a good foundation in the cooking of eggs is infinitely helpful in boosting your general cooking ability.

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Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," a Timeless Classic!

If you're trying to recreate the savory taste of classic French cooking, that elusive mouth-watering aroma of a meal you once had, that recipe you lost and could never find another that was exactly right, then this may be the perfect cookbook for you. With beautiful illustrations, Mastering The Art Of French Cooking serves beginners and old pros alike.

To paraphrase the authors, if you have the right instructions, anyone can make these recipes. There's no real secret, other than the sequence. The step-by-step instructions are plain, from purchasing all your ingredients, then the easiest assembly order, through the finished creation result. By the time you've finished one or two of these recipes you may even surprise yourself at how well they turn out!

The recipes are organized by major themes together with nearly endless variations. In a sensible order the key recipes are presented so that anyone can quickly become proficient with the basics, leading to any number of elaborations. When practical, classic techniques are converted to the conveniences available today in modern America and elsewhere.

Lessons are included free of charge. How to buy the right cuts of meat, for example, the right beans or perhaps seafood and fish to replicate the precise texture and taste of the original French food items. Suggestions for the proper sides for each dish, the correct and permissible wines, whatever you may be unsure of, this cookbook is here to help. How's your cordon bleu? The secrets of famous recipes are right here.

Kids will even appreciate this food, and ask for it! Once you get comfortable with the book you'll see the recipes are mostly easy to do, and if you like a challenge there are some that are a bit more difficult. A lot of thought went into this book and each recipe it contains. The illustrations take you by the hand and walk you through easily.

Another benefit is all the ingredients can be found at a typical grocery store. No need to shop the pricey specialty shops, (unless you want to), ethnic markets, and so forth. Just write your list and go!

From omelets, to soups, to roasts, and more, Mastering The Art Of French Cooking will be a reference you'll turn to again and again. Oh and desserts? You bet! Once you start on these you'll wonder how you ever lived without them. Okay, maybe not really, but you might! Ahhhh, French bread? Sorry, but that's in volume II.

Also, "Julie & Julia" is now a major motion picture (released in August 2009) starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child. It is partially based on Julia Child's memoir, My Life in France.

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