Julia's Kitchen Wisdom
Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking: A Cookbook
Published on 23. June 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-375-71185-5 (ISBN)
Description
In this indispensable volume of kitchen wisdom, Julia Child gives home cooks the answers to their most pressing cooking questions.
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 packed with essential information about soups, vegetables, and eggs, for baking breads and tarts, and more, making it a perfect compendium of a lifetime spent cooking.
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 packed with essential information about soups, vegetables, and eggs, for baking breads and tarts, and more, making it a perfect compendium of a lifetime spent cooking.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
28PP B&W PHOTOGRAPHS
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 176 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
267 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-375-71185-5 (9780375711855)
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Julia's Kitchen Wisdom
Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking: A Cookbook
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01/2010
Knopf
€9.99
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Person
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.