French Cuisine For All Author:Louisette Bertholle, Mary Manheim (Translator) When authors Louisette Bertholle, Simon Beck and Julia Child brought out Mastering the Art of French Cooking over several years back, it opened up Americans to preparing classic French Recipes that pointed to French Cuisine. From there, both Julia Child and Mme. Beck (Simca) went on and published more cookbooks to much ... more »great success. Now with this cookbook, Mme. Bertholle puts forth "simpler refined cooking" that reflect more modern day French Cooking. She shares for the first time, her own methods, techniques, secrets and advice for every aspect of meal preparation. You'll be pleasantly surprised with the wealth of information (part 1): about decoration, seasonings, use of aromatic vinegars and oils, savory butters etc. Choosing appropiate wines and how to serve them. Then the best part, page after pages 73 to page 455 (part 2) of "glorious" recipes. The result is a cookbook very much for modern times, yet firmly rooted in the classical way of French Cooking.« less