A James Beard Award winner offers personable recipes for French home cooking, presenting more than three hundred recipes for hors d'oeuvres, salads, soups, meat dishes, fish, vegetables, and desserts, with a separate section on making dough, vinaigrettes, and sauces.

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 real French families eat-yet they eat very well indeed. Now that the typical French woman (the...

Chefs of all ages and abilities can share Julia's love of fine French food and learn to cook some of her most-loved dishes with this collection of eighteen episodes from her original 1960's series. Includes downloadable recipes and a bibliography.

"Rustic and approachable, Reynaud's favorite meals require just one pan or pot, can be prepared in about ten minutes, and then are left in the oven to bake or on the stovetop to simmer. From the classics, such as coq au vin, pot-au-feu, and côte de boeuf, to more inventive takes on French cuisine, including a wide selection of vegetarian dishes, the more than 150 recipes are built for no-fuss family dinners and elegant yet simple gatherings. In addition...

"For the first time ever, the legendary chef collects and updates the best recipes from his six-decade career. With a searchable DVD demonstrating every technique a cook will ever need. In his more than sixty years as a chef, Jacques Pepin has earned a reputation as a champion of simplicity. His recipes are classics. They find the shortest, surest route to flavor, avoiding complicated techniques. Now, in a book that celebrates his life in food,...