JULIA'S KITCHEN WISDOM Essential Techniques and Recipes From a Lifetime of Cooking

Child, Julia (with David Nussbaum)

ISBN 10: 0375711856 / ISBN 13: 9780375711855

Published by Alfred A. Knoph, New York, 2009

About this Item

A very nice soft cover copy without flaw. 7 X 8" 135 pages. This book began as Julia Child's loose-leaf kitchen reference guide, gradually compiled from her own trials, remedies and errors - corrected as she cooked her way through the years. Often you can be in the midst of cooking and you can't remember what the oven temperature should be or the system that so successfully brings back the hollandaise sauce. This book aims to give quick, snappy answers to many of those kind of questions. It has Master recipes but doesn't pretend to take the place of a big detailed, all purpose cookbook, but for those who know their way around the stove reasonably well it will become a book you can't do without. Complete with a thorough, professional index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: JULIA'S KITCHEN WISDOM Essential Techniques and Recipes From a Lifetime of Cooking
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knoph, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375711856
• ISBN 13: 9780375711855
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: **Bundle Up & Save On Postage**
• Printing: 8th Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cookbooks, Food & Drink
  • Cooking : Bread Making * Pastry Arts * Desserts
  • Cooking : Techniques

About this title

Synopsis

In this indispensable volume of kitchen wisdom, Julia Child gives home cooks the answers to their most pressing cooking questions—with essential information about soups, vegetables, eggs, baking breads and tarts, and more.

How many minutes should you cook green beans? What are the right proportions for a vinaigrette? How do you skim off fat? What is the perfect way to roast a chicken?

Here Julia provides solutions for these and many other everyday cooking queries. How are you going to cook that small rib steak you brought home? You''ll be guided to the quick sauté as the best and fastest way. And once you''ve mastered that recipe, you can apply the technique to chops, chicken, or fish, following Julia''s careful guidelines.

Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom is a perfect compendium of a lifetime spent cooking.

About the Author

JULIA CHILD was born in Pasadena, California. She graduated from Smith College and worked for the OSS during World War II; afterward she lived in Paris, studied at the Cordon Bleu, and taught cooking with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, with whom she wrote the first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961). In 1963, Boston's WGBH launched The French Chef television series, which made Julia Child a national celebrity, earning her the Peabody Award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966. Several public television shows and numerous cookbooks followed. She died in 2004.