‘If you can read, you can cook.’ This was the simple, revolutionary philosophy behind Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child.
Even with sixty years’ hindsight, the book’s lasting success is remarkable. In two volumes and running to well over a thousand pages of precise technical French cuisine it was launched on a nation of home cooks who knew little about la belle France, yet it became a runaway bestseller and catapulted one of its authors to fame.
Read, then Cook
‘If you can read, you can cook.’ This was the simple, revolutionary philosophy behind Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961 and 1970), written by Julia Child, Simone Beck and Louisette...
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