French Cooking

The Way to Cook

In this magnificent new cookbook, illustrated with full color throughout, Julia Child gives us her magnum opus–the distillation of a lifetime of cooking. And she has an important message for Americans today. . .–to the health-conscious: make a habit of good home cooking so that you know you are working with the best and freshest ingredients and you …

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The Bonne Femme Cookbook: Simple, Splendid Food That French Women Cook Every Day

Here is authentic French cooking without fuss or fear. When we think of French cooking, we might picture a fine restaurant with a small army of chefs hovering over sauces for hours at a stretch, crafting elegant dishes with special utensils, hard-to-find ingredients, and architectural skill. But this kind of cooking bears little relationship to the way that …

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Buvette: The Pleasure of Good Food

The best of French Bistro cooking–simple yet sophisticated tastes–by the owner and chef of the celebrated New York restaurant. BUVETTE: The Pleasure of Good FoodBUVETTE will celebrate and capitalize on the trend of informal eating and simple entertaining, but with delicious flair. Jody Williams, owner of Buvette restaurant, shows the home cook how to create casual, polished meals …

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The Dukan Diet Cookbook: The Essential Companion to the Dukan Diet

As millions of Dukan Dieters around the world know, delicious food and permanent weight loss can go hand in hand.  Now comes the Dukan Diet Cookbook—already an international bestseller— the must-have resource for making the Dukan Diet successful and delicious.Introduced in the phenomenal bestseller The Dukan Diet, Dr. Dukan’s four-step plan rejects counting calories and instead harnesses the …

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Jacques Pépin More Fast Food My Way

From “a great teacher and truly a master technician” (Julia Child), a new cookbook full of faster-than-ever food, including dozens of elegant “minute” recipesJacques Pépin Fast Food My Way was an immediate sensation, captivating cooks and critics, who called it “fabulous,” “chic,” and “elegant.” Now America’s first and most enduring celebrity chef does himself one better, with recipes …

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Bistronomy: Recipes from the Best New Paris Bistros

Finalist for the IACP Cookbook Award, Chefs and RestaurantsFrench food reimagined by a new generation of chefs. There is a new movement afoot in Paris. Young chefs have turned their backs on stuffiness and are creating an experience that is more fun and a lot less formal. In tiny independent bistros mostly on the outskirts of the city, they …

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