About this title: Based on Julia Child's original television program from the 1960s, the recipes in this cookbook illustrate her simple and commonsense approach to French cuisine that made it accessible to millions of home cooks.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1968
ISBN-13:9780394401355ISBN:0394401352
Description: Very good in fair dust jacket. Dust jacket is worn with a few small tears and a large stain along the spine. The interior is clean and unmarked. 424 p. read more
Description: Good. Creased corners of cover, smudging to cover, and pages have a light tannish tint to them (NOT from smoke-smells fine). Still a nice copy. Pages are clean, straight, & unmarked. Spine is tight & square. A2c. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Date Published: 2002-08-01
ISBN-13:9780375710063ISBN:037571006X
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780375710063. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, N. Y.
Date Published: 1971
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Mass market paperback is in very good condition with a crease to back cover and some light stain to inside back cover otherwise is unmarked and tightly bound. read more
Edition: First Bantam Book Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, N. Y.
Date Published: 1971
Description: Illustrated with Photographs. Very Good Plus. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Mass market paperback is in very good plus condition with slight wear and a crease to bottom back cover. drawings and photographs by paul child. copy is unmarked and tightly bound. read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group, Borzoi Books, New York
Date Published: 1968
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Book in almost fine condition. Clean, tight interior. xxxiii, 424, xvi p. illus. 22 cm. Includes Illustrations. read more
"I didn't get this book for myself, so understand that this review is second-hand. I got it for my wife as part of a Julia Child theme birthday gift (she got the pearls, too) after I had taken her to see the movie "Julie & Julia". She couldn't put it down and was noting pages and recipes while wearing her new pearls. It is a very unique cookbook as you would expect from Julia Child. Any cook (or kook) would love it."
"If you have been ordering the old French Chef TV series to watch, purchasing a lot of eggs, butter and cream, this is the book you want. I am enjoying it a lot. It isn't just recipes from the TV series, it has a lot of background on Julia and how the series was produced. Not all of this was in Julie and Julia, the new movie. I tend to read cookbooks as novels and collect vintage cookbooks so I see history in the making in them. Since we have been watching The French Chef series we weren't writing out the recipes, except now we see they aren't all in this book. That was disappointing. But it does say which show # a recipe is from. We have been cooking from the book and find it a delight. Being a pocketbook paperback with a tight binding doesn't make it easy to lay out and read the recipe. But all in all, it is a delight to cook and eat these lovely recipes and read the stories that come along with it. A little more fun is that the recipe titles are in English and French so we are picking up a little French, and think we are sounding quite cosmopolitan to boot. Voila!"
"I loved the show on PBS. I bought the book with my birthday money and proudly brought it home to show my mother. She looked at me as if I were crazy. "Your father," she said, "would never eat this stuff." And, she pointed out that most of the recipes weren't kosher. I was crushed.
However, we found some recipes that would work...mainly desserts. And I took the book with me when I left home. I have used it frequently over the years. More than anything, as I read the recipes and instructions, I can hear Julia's excitement and passion as it used to boom from the tv screen and enthralled me as a teen."
"I thought that since the second book was nice this would be also. It was difficult to find recipes since it was organized by episodes. There are better book out today."
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