Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Vol. 2 (Paperback) by Julia Child
Culinary Memories... Triggered By "Julie And Julia"
Here is the sequel to the great cooking classic. Each of the new recipes is
worked out step-by-step, with the clarity and precision that are the essence
of the first volume. 5 times as many drawings as in Vol. I make the clear
instructions even more so.
Personal Review: Mastering the Art of French Cooking Vol. 2
(Paperback) by Julia Child
Along with Vol. 1, Mastering the Art of French Cooking Vol. 2 was my
inspiration and my guide when I was a young cook.
Recently seeing "Julie and Julia" brought back floods of memories of those
hours immersed in Julia Child's directions, and the resulting absolutely
glorious eating. I embarrassed my dear love -- who wasn't with me during
those early culinary adventures -- by moaning and sighing over the food
shown in the movie; that movie is like porno for foodies. When we got
home, he extracted a promise that I would cook Julia's Boeuf Bourguignon
(Vol. 1, on my very splattered page 315) within two weeks.

I'm hoping that the movie will send a new generation of cooks to explore
this exquisite cuisine. There will be the concern about all that butter, but
oddly, when I was cooking and eating a lot of Julia Child butter-drenched
recipes I was at my thinnest, and my cholesterol was low.
We were in Paris for three days a little over a month ago, and the only
overweight people I saw seemed to be tourists. It is a puzzle: we ate all our
meals in restaurants, mainly non-touristy ones, and the slender and chic
women were eating their croissants and creme brulee right along with the
men. No picking at lettuce leaves for them.
I highly recommend this book, and hope everyone who buys it will use the
recipes as little adventures if they haven't been cooking this way, perhaps
setting aside some Sunday afternoons to play and explore (this is not eight
minutes in the microwave cooking, for sure).
And go see the movie.
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