The French Chef Cookbook by Julia Child Author:Julia Child This book grew out of the educational television series "The French Chef," which was designed to cover as much as possible of French cooking in several seasons of weekly half-hour programs. It ranges from sauces, stews, and meats to appetizers, vegetables, desserts, cakes and pastries, and from the very simple to the fairly complicated. The bo... more »ok represents 119 programs, the complete television series as it now exists, and the recipes are printed in the order that the shows were produced. Although about a third were taken from Mastering the Art of French Cooking, some of the television recipes differ slightly from the book recipes: there is more than one good way of skinning a duck or cooking a ragout, and occasionally our TV time-limitations forced me to eliminate a frill or two. The rest of the recipes have evolved from studies for Volume II of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and as I had to cook each dish six, eight, ten, or more times to test or to precook it for my half-hour program, television has provided an invaluable opportunity for me to prove them out to my satisfaction.« less