The Way to Cook [Signed First Edition]

Child, Julia; Manell, Rosemary (Food Designer)

ISBN 10: 0394532643 / ISBN 13: 9780394532646

Edité par Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989

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Beautifully signed by Julia Child at half-title page: "Bon Appetit! Julia Child." Very attractive. Includes original 6" x 8" b&w semi-gloss photograph from book promotion of Julia signing "The Way to Cook" with back of photo dated Sept. 12, 1990. According to the original owner, the photo is from an appearance of Julia Child at a luncheon held on this date in 1990 in "Governor's Mansion," The Inn at Essex, Vermont. Stated "First Edition" at copyright page; 1989 at title page and copyright. Very substantial oversize volume with 9 1/2" x 11 1/4" design weighing nearly six lbs. Semi-gloss, white patterned boards, light shelf wear, bump. Heavy stock, coated pages, near fine. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Bright and elegant dust wrapper, light shelf wear; unclipped 50.00, protected in new clear sleeve. Rare near fine signed first edition in same wrapper with original photo from event. Julia takes you into her kitchen and tells you - and shows you - everything she knows about the essentials of good cooking. A one-of-a-kind, brilliant cookbook. She blends classic technique with free-style American cooking, emphasizing lightness, freshness and simpler preparations. More than eight hundred recipes and profusely illustrated with six hundred color photographs. Printed in the United States of America. 511 pages with a Note on the Author and the Type. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Way to Cook [Signed First Edition]
• Éditeur: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Date de parution: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0394532643
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780394532646
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Leatart, Brian; Scherer, Jim (Photography)
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author
• Type de livre: Book

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Synopsis

Used book in good condition, due to its age it could contain normal signs of use

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this magnificent new cookbook, illustrated with full color throughout, Julia Child gives 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 working with the best and freshest ingredients and you can be in control of what goes into every dish
--to the new generation of cooks who have not grown up in the old traditions: learn the basics and understand what you are doing so cooking can be easier, faster, and more enjoyable
--to the more experienced cook: have fun improvising and creating your own versions of traditional dishes
--and to all of us: above all, enjoy the pleasures of the table.

In this spirit, Julia has conceived her most creative and instructive cookbook, blending classic techniques with free-style American cooking and with added emphasis on lightness, freshness, and simpler preparations. Breaking with conventional organization, she structures the chapters (from Soups to Cakes & Cookies) around master recipes, giving all the reassuring details that she is so good at and grouping the recipes according to method; these are followed--in shorthand form--by innumerable variations that are easily made once the basics are understood.

For example, make her simple but impeccably prepared sauté of chicken, and before long you're easily whipping up Chicken with Mushrooms and Cream, Chicken Provençale, Chicken Pipérade, or Chicken Marengo. Or master her perfect broiled butterflied chicken, and next time Deviled Rabbit or Split Cornish Game Hens Broiled with Cheese will be on your menu.

In all, there are more than 800 recipes, including the variations--from a treasure trove of poultry and fish recipes and a vast array of fresh vegetables prepared in new ways to bread doughs (that can be turned into pizzas and calzones and hamburger buns) 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 that cake, there are more than 600 color photographs to entice and instruct you along the way.

A one-of-a-kind, brilliant, and inspiring book from the incomparable Julia, which is bound to rekindle interest in the satisfactions of good home cooking.