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Mastering the Art of French Cooking Volumes 1 & 2

By: Julia Child

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Hardcover | 3 March 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Hardcover
1 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
24.5 x 16.5 x 9.5

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Published: 1st December 2009

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This is the bestselling classic guide to French cooking with over 1000 clear authentic and delicious recipes for every key French dish from Boeuf Bourguignon to the perfect croissant.

And now to celebrate its 50th anniversary Penguin have reset and redesigned the text and there is a special anniversary introduction from Julia Child. Published in time for Mother's Day, this boxset with its two beautiful hardback volumes will become the essential ingredient for any cultivated kitchen

About the Author

Julia Child was born in Pasadena, California. She was graduated from Smith College and worked for the OSS during World War II in Ceylon and China, where she met Paul Child. After they married they lived in Paris, where she 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 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.

Industry Reviews

"The most instructive book on fine French cooking written in the English language Elizabeth David It will gladden the heart of all good cooks ... an alchemist's stone which enables any cook to turn base ingredients into gold"
Caroline Conran, Sunday Times

"As close to a divine text as you can get"
Matthew Fort, Guardian

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