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Summary
Summary
Two legendary cooks invite us into their kitchen and show us the basics of good home cooking.
Julia Child and Jacques Pepin are synonymous with good food, and in these pages they demonstrate techniques (on which they don't always agree), discuss ingredients, improvise, balance flavors to round out a meal, and conjure up new dishes from leftovers. Center stage are carefully spelled-out recipes flanked by Julia's and Jacques's comments-the accumulated wisdom of two lifetimes of honing their cooking skills. Nothing is written in stone, they imply. And that is one of the most important lessons for every good cook.
So sharpen your knives and join in the fun as you learn to make-
. Appetizers- from traditional and instant gravlax to your own sausage in brioche and a country p te
. Soups- from New England chicken chowder and onion soup gratinee to Mediterranean seafood stew and that creamy essence of mussels, billi-bi
.Eggs- omelets and "tortillas"; scrambled, poached, and coddled eggs; eggs as a liaison for sauces and as the puffing power for souffles
.Salads and Sandwiches- basic green and near-Ni oise salads; a crusty round seafood-stuffed bread, a lobster roll, and a pan bagnat
.Potatoes- baked, mashed, hash-browned, scalloped, souffled, and French-fried
.Vegetables- the favorites from artichokes to tomatoes, blanched, steamed, sauteed, braised, glazed, and gratineed
.Fish- familiar varieties whole and filleted (with step-by-step instructions for preparing your own), steamed en papillote, grilled, seared, roasted, and poached, plus a classic sole meuni re and the essentials of lobster cookery
.Poultry- the perfect roast chicken (Julia's way and Jacques's way); holiday turkey, Julia's deconstructed and Jacques's galantine; their two novel approaches to duck
.Meat- the right technique for each cut of meat (along with lessons in cutting up), from steaks and hamburger to boeuf bourguignon and roast leg of lamb
.Desserts- cr me caramel, profiteroles, chocolate roulade, free-form apple tart-as you make them you'll learn all the important building blocks for handling dough, cooking custards, preparing fillings and frostings
.And much, much more . . .
Throughout this richly illustrated book you'll see Julia's and Jacques's hands at work, and you'll sense the pleasure the two are having cooking together, tasting, exchanging ideas, and raising a glass to savor the fruits of their labor. Again and again they demonstrate that cooking is endlessly fascinating and challenging and, while ultimately personal, it is a joy to be shared.
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Culinary grande dame Child and master chef Ppin define "the basics of fine food that looks good, tastes the way it should and is a total pleasure to eat." Chapters are organized into appetizers, soups, eggs, salads and sandwiches, potatoes, vegetables, fish, poultry, meats and desserts. Based on the vast experience of these chefs, the book takes a she says/he says approach to home-style French cooking: While Julia finds the dark digestive vein in shrimp "ugly" and automatically removes it, Jacques considers it "perfectly good protein to eat"; Julia prefers seasoning food with white pepper, but Jacques uses black pepper, and so forth. Child and Ppin recycle familiar Franco-American classics, like Omelets, Souffls, French Fries, Sole Meunire, Roast Chicken, Steak Au Poivre and Crme Brle, with a contemporary sleight-of-hand (e.g., stocks that can be made within an hour; a microwave method for clarified butter). Eschewing today's trendy global pantry, recipes emphasize fresh, seasonal ingredients. There is also no shortage of shopping, preparation and technique tips from the pros, such as Jacques's perspective on buying a good steak: "it's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money." A charismatic tag team, veterans Child and Ppin illuminate novice and seasoned home cooks alike, gently reminding readers that "eating, as well as cooking, should be pleasurable and guiltless." First serial to Gourmet; Good Cook Book Club main selection; author tour. (Sept.) FYI: Cooking at Home is based on a forthcoming 22-part PBS series. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Julia Child and Jacques Pepin, America's preeminent teachers of French home cooking, have conjoined to produce a new television series. Through each one's previous television classes, these two have already improved the output of the American kitchen, and their new PBS series promises to carry on this tradition. As a supplement to the television series, this volume demonstrates the team's complementary styles. Child's and Pepin's individual comments face each other across the printed recipe, their differing opinions readily accessible and useful for a cook attempting the recipe in a home kitchen. Child's practical intuition tempers Pepin's intellectual, academic approach. Nowhere is this more evident than in their divergent advice on rescuing a curdled hollandaise: Pepin concentrates on reconstituting the sauce's texture; Child worries about avoiding waste of all that expensive butter. Recipes duplicate both chefs' previous work and are written for the moderately skilled cook. Befitting current taste, fish have a prominent place, and the chefs duel over hamburgers: Child's thin and pan fried, Pepin's thick and grilled. Surprisingly, desserts appear as almost an afterthought. No puff pastry, no elaborate cakes, just a creme caramel, cream puffs, a chocolate roulade, crepes, and some fruit desserts suffice for today's sweets. Child and Pepin focus on instruction, not on showmanship, demonstrating their seriousness of purpose without any pedantry. The duo's popularity and professionalism will create significant demand for this joint venture. --Mark Knoblauch
Library Journal Review
What could be better than seeing these two incomparable chefs cooking together in Julia's kitchen and having a wonderful time while they're at it? This is the companion volume to the authors' new PBS series, premiering in October, but there are many "bonus" recipes here, including some that had to be cut from the series because of time limitations and others created especially for this book. For each show, the two chefs started out with ideas and ingredients but no set recipes, so they improvised as they went along, cooking a lot of their favorite traditional dishes and coming up with new ones as well. The two didn't always agreeÄeach recipe has one sidebar from Julia, another from Jacques, presenting each one's take on the dish and personalized tips. Dozens of boxes throughout the text provide information on a wide variety of topics, from "Julia on Getting a Good Chicken" to "Ppin Peels a Pepper," and the more than 300 color photos show both techniques step by step and many of the finished dishes. An essential purchase, of course. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/1/99; BOMC/Good Cook main selection.] (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Excerpts
Excerpts
Potato Salads Potato salad is perfect picnic fare, but it is a good side dish any time of year, dressed and garnished in various styles to suit the season. Julia's American-style potato salad is garnished with hard-boiled eggs and crisp bacon bits, chopped pickles, onions, and celery, all given a light coating of homemade mayonnaise. Make this at least an hour ahead of time so the flavors have time to ripen, and serve cool or at room temperature. Jacques's salad is particularly nice for winter meals -- the hot potatoes are tossed with white wine and oil, sautéed onions, scallions, and garlic. Serve it warm, with slices of hot, homemade sausage arranged on top, or with other meats. The best potatoes for salad are the firm-textured, low-starch "waxy" varieties, which hold their shape well, such as boiling potatoes, small new potatoes, or delicate fingerlings. All-purpose potatoes with waxy flesh, such as the versatile Yukon Gold, are particularly delicious. Whatever kind you use, dress the potatoes while they are still warm so that they best absorb the flavors, and gently fold in all the dressing and seasoning ingredients in one or two additions only, so the potato pieces don't get mashed from overhandling. Julia's American-Style Potato Salad Yield: About 6 cups, serving 4 to 6 2 pounds large Yukon Gold potatoes, or other waxy, boiling potatoes 2 Tbs cider vinegar 1/3 cup chicken stock or potato-cooking water 2/3 cup finely chopped onion 1/2 cup finely chopped celery 3 or 4 slices crisply cooked bacon, chopped or crumbled 2 to 3 Tbs finely chopped pickle, sweet or dill 2 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and sliced thin 3 Tbs or so finely chopped fresh chives or scallions, including a bit of their tender green Salt and freshly ground white pepper 1 cup or so mayonnaise, homemade if possible (pages 117 and 120) Sour cream (optional) For garnishing Crisp whole red-leaf or other lettuce leaves Canned red pimiento, diced; sliced hard-boiled eggs; tomato quarters; parsley sprigs (optional) Peel the potatoes and slice each one lengthwise in half, or in quarters if very large; then cut crosswise into half-round or quarter-round slices, about 1/2 inch thick. Put the slices in a saucepan with water just to cover and 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt per quart of water. Heat to a simmer, and cook the potatoes for 5 to 6 minutes, or until just cooked through. It is essential that they be just cooked through. Bite into a slice or two to be very sure. Immediately remove from the heat and drain the potatoes into a colander, but save a cup of the cooking liquid for dressing the potatoes. Transfer the potatoes to a large bowl. Stir the cider vinegar with 1/3 cup of the potato water or chicken stock and drizzle this over the potato pieces, turning them gently to distribute it evenly. Let sit 10 minutes to absorb the liquid. Add the prepared onion, celery, bacon, pickle, hard-boiled eggs, and chives, and season carefully to taste. Top with 2/3 cup of mayonnaise (or a mix of mayonnaise and a bit of sour cream) and, with a large rubber spatula, gently fold everything together until well blended. Taste the salad and add more salt, pepper, or mayonnaise as needed. Cover the salad and set aside in the refrigerator for at least an hour or so before serving. If it is refrigerated longer, let it come back to room temperature before serving. Taste and adjust the seasoning again. To serve, line a bowl or a platter with red-leaf lettuce or other greens, and mound the salad on top. Decorate at the last moment, if you wish, with any or all of the optional garnishes. Jacques's French Potato Salad Yield: About 6 cups, serving 4 to 6 2 pounds fingerling potatoes or other small waxy potatoes 1/2 cup or so extra-virgin olive oil 1/2 cup 1/4-inch slices of scallion, green and white parts 1/2 cup chopped onion 3 cloves garlic, mashed and coarsely chopped (1 1/2 tsp) 1/3 cup white wine 1 1/2 Tbs Dijon-style mustard 2 to 3 Tbs chopped chives 2 Tbs or more coarsely chopped fresh green or purple basil, fresh tarragon, or parsley 1 tsp kosher salt, plus more if needed 1/2 tsp freshly cracked black pepper (coarse), plus more if needed For serving and garnishing Large radicchio leaves, about 6, from the outside of the head 1 or 2 hard-boiled eggs, coarsely chopped Chopped fresh parsley Scrub the potatoes and put them, whole, in a saucepan with water to cover by 1/2 inch. Bring the water to a boil, reduce the heat, and cook the potatoes gently until they are just tender and can be pierced with a sharp knife. Drain immediately and let cool slightly. (Scrape the skin from the cooked potatoes, if you want, as soon as they can be handled. For a decorative look with fingerlings, scrape off only a band of skin, about 1/2 inch thick, all around the long sides of the potato.) Heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil in a small saute pan. When hot, add the scallions and the onion, toss to coat well, and cook for about a minute over medium-high heat. Add the garlic, toss to mix, and cook for just a few moments, then remove the pan from the heat. Slice the potatoes while still warm, cutting them crosswise into 1/2-inch sections. Put the pieces in a large mixing bowl, pour the wine and 3 or 4 tablespoons of olive oil over them, and toss gently to distribute. Add the warm vegetables from the pan, mustard, chives, chopped herbs, salt, and pepper, and gently fold all together, mixing well but not crushing the potatoes. Taste the salad and add more seasonings as you like. Serve the potatoes warm (no colder than room temperature). Arrange the large radicchio leaves, if you have them, in a close circle on the serving platter, with their curved insides up, to form a rough bowl. Spoon the potato salad inside the leaves, sprinkle chopped egg around the edges, and parsley over the top. Excerpted from Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home by Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, David Nussbaum All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.Table of Contents
Julia's Introduction | p. vi |
Jacques's Introduction | p. viii |
Preface | p. x |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Appetizers | p. 2 |
Soups | p. 36 |
Eggs | p. 64 |
Salads and Sandwiches | p. 100 |
Potatoes and Other Accompaniments | p. 146 |
Vegetables | p. 174 |
Fish | p. 216 |
Poultry | p. 254 |
Meats | p. 306 |
Desserts | p. 376 |
Index | p. 422 |