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The Way To Cook by Julia Child

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  • jdepaula on August 09, 2010

    So many wonderful recipes here. If I want to try a new recipe for guests, this book is the one I go for. It's one of my faves.

  • SilverSage on March 07, 2010

    Covers the basics beautifully.

  • phomchick on January 15, 2010

    The best all-around cookbook every written. Indispensable, if you are interested in learning how to cook with technique.

  • Cramnella on January 14, 2010

    This was the first cookbook that taught me how to cook.

  • Nancy Levy on December 31, 2009

    Good Basic Reference Book

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  • Salade niçoise

    • Noshing With the Nolands

      It would make a perfect brunch salad with some fresh French bread and a lovely glass of chardonnay. Perfection!!

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    • Baked by Rachel

      Last week’s recipe called for bacon. I had plenty leftover so I figured it was meant to be. Hopefully Julia wouldn’t have minded this one bit,,,

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  • Coq au vin

    • Noshing With the Nolands

      Julia was a master at all these techniques and again if you follow her recipe you will have a gorgeous meal!! We sure did!!! It was fabulous!!

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    • Baked by Rachel

      You’ll need a good portion of a bottle of wine for the recipe. So, if you’re planning on drinking more than a glass or two plan on getting two bottles. It never hurts to have extra on hand.

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  • ISBN 10 0394532643
  • ISBN 13 9780394532646
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  • Published Oct 01 1989
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
  • Imprint Alfred A. Knopf

Publishers Text

Julia Child's masterpiece teaches the essentials by demonstration from and for a lifetime of good cooking.


As Suzanne Hamlin wrote in the Daily News, Nobody doesn't need this book. It's Julia at her grandest, her most ebullient, her most accomplished. Wiser, more relaxed and more opinionated than ever, America's whisk-whirling mentor has given us a new Joy of Cooking - classic techniques approached with freewheeling style, accompanied by a fusillade of side notes and color photos. If you cooked everything in this book - soups to cookies - you'd be proud, learned, maybe healthy and certainly happy. What we don't know, Julia does. Don't let a child leave home without it.

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