Original mastering the art of french cooking

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Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, Seller Rating:. Contact seller. First Edition Signed. Used Condition: Very Good.

Original mastering the art of french cooking

For over fifty years, this New York Times bestseller has been the definitive cookbook on French cuisine for American readers. It deserves a place of honor in every kitchen. Featuring delicious recipes and over instructive illustrations to guide readers every step of the way, Mastering the Art of French Cooking offers something for everyone, from seasoned experts to beginners who love good food and long to reproduce the savory delights of French cuisine. Graphic Image takes pride in processing and shipping your order as quickly as possible. Our processing time for personalized orders is approximately 8 to 10 business days. Processing time for non-personalized orders are approximately 6 to 8 business days. Choosing an expedited shipping method does NOT effect the processing time for the order. It is up to the carrier to deliver your package on time. Delivered But Not Delivered Package If tracking information confirms that the item has been delivered to the shipping address on the order, but you have not received your products, please contact the carrier directly and open an investigation. If you need your order any sooner than our listed processing times, please contact us or email us at customerservice graphicimage. Our hours of operation are Monday through Friday, AM to We appreciate your understanding and patience. If you are not satisfied with your order for any reason, we will accept the return of items that are in new, unused condition, with original tags attached and all original packaging and other components included, when accompanied by an original Graphic Image receipt, invoice, or gift receipt.

Very Good with fading to cloth heaviest at spine, light soiling and and a few scattered stains to cloth and pages throughout. Discount code cannot be applied to the cart. Julia Child" Very attractive signature contemporaneous with publishing of this volume.

The success of Volume 1 resulted in Julia Child being given her own television show, The French Chef , one of the first cooking programs on American television. Historian David Strauss claimed in that the publication of Mastering the Art of French Cooking "did more than any other event in the last half century to reshape the gourmet dining scene". Gourmet magazine offered French recipes to subscribers monthly, and several dozen French cookbooks were published throughout the s. These recipes, however, were directly translated from French, and consequently were designed for a middle-class French audience that was familiar with French cooking techniques, had access to common French ingredients, and who often had servants cook for them. In the early s, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, French cooking teachers who had trained at Le Cordon Bleu , sought to capitalize on the American market for French cookbooks and wrote and published a small recipe book for American audiences, What's Cooking in France , in Beck and Bertholle wanted an English-speaking partner to help give them insight into American culture, translate their work into English, and bring it to American publishers, so they invited their friend Julia Child, who had also studied at Le Cordon Bleu, to collaborate with them on a book tentatively titled "French Cooking for the American Kitchen".

Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. Featuring delicious recipes, in its pages home cooks will find something for everyone, from seasoned experts to beginners who love good food and long to reproduce the savory delights of French cuisine, from historic Gallic masterpieces to the seemingly artless perfection of a dish of spring-green peas. Here Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle break down the classic foods of France into a logical sequence of themes and variations rather than presenting an endless and diffuse catalogue of dishes. Throughout, the focus is on key recipes that form the backbone of French cookery and lend themselves to an infinite number of elaborations--bound to increase anyone's culinary repertoire. With over instructive illustrations to guide readers every step of the way, Mastering the Art of French Cooking deserves a place of honor in every kitchen in America.

Original mastering the art of french cooking

The success of Volume 1 resulted in Julia Child being given her own television show, The French Chef , one of the first cooking programs on American television. Historian David Strauss claimed in that the publication of Mastering the Art of French Cooking "did more than any other event in the last half century to reshape the gourmet dining scene". Gourmet magazine offered French recipes to subscribers monthly, and several dozen French cookbooks were published throughout the s.

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By the end of , Beck and Child had grown frustrated with Bertholle because they felt she did not contribute enough to Mastering the Art of French Cooking to merit co-authorship and one third of the book's proceeds, and wanted Knopf to change the byline to read "by Simone Beck and Julia Child with Louisette Bertholle. Albums Clear Pocket Albums. GiGi New York. I: 2 inch open tear at top of rear flap fold. Bound in original Fleur-de-lis patterened cloth. Critics praised the book's comprehensiveness, but some felt that it was far too ambitious for the average home cook. Selling quality books for 30 years. A much rarer offering than a signed Julia Child copy. Light staining on top text block edge. Rare near fine signed original single volume edition in very good wrapper. Dust Jacket Included.

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Volume I is Very Good with staining to the textblock edge and light water warping to the top page corners with some loss to the topstain there as well; former owner inscription to the front free endpaper. November 5, The cookbook includes recipes. Signed by Julia Child and Simone Beck on the first blank page. Signed on the title page, next to their names, by Simone Beck and Julia Child not on a tipped-in card, but on the actual page. Tell us what you're looking for and once a match is found, we'll inform you by e-mail. Beck, Bertholle, and Child initially signed a contract with publisher Houghton Mifflin , but Houghton Mifflin grew uninterested in the project. No Jacket. Condition: Fine. Processing time for non-personalized orders are approximately 6 to 8 business days. Stated seventeenth printing, May Original dust wrapper, moderate edge wear, rub; clipped, protected in new clear sleeve.