| Le Cordon Bleu's Complete Cooking Techniques: the indispensable reference demonstrates over 700 illustrated techniques with 2,000 photos and 200 recipes | 
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| Author: Le Cordon Bleu
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 20128
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.8
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 0688152066
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5944
EAN: 9780688152062
ASIN: 0688152066
Publication Date: November 5, 1997
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Product Description
With this exceptional opus, over 100 years of unparalleled experience and expertise are put at the fingertips of every home cook using the same hands-on approach promoted in practical classes at Le Cordon Bleu's institutes. This indispensable and unique reference work teaches essential preparation and cooking skills and professional tricks-of-the-trade, with over 700 cooking techniques shown in more than 2,000 color images.Whatever the interest -- providing family-pleasing everyday fare or mastering a top chef's recipe, or even attempting to re-create a dish from a restaurant menu -- Le Cordon Bleu Complete Cooking Techniques will enable people to cook what they want with success. Its hundreds of illustrated techniques are invaluable kitchen aids, as are the many integral recipes. Cooks interested in ethnic cuisines, readers of chef inspired, ingredient-led, or occasion-oriented cookbooks, as well as devotees of simple home cooking will turn to this book again and again and wonder how they ever cooked without it. Le Cordon Bleu Complete Cooking Techniques is destined to become a classic kitchen reference.
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Excellent book! June 26, 2008
This book is just amazing. Great help for those who want to master or learn the basic cooking techniques.
If you like to eat, but have no idea where to start preparing or buying food, this is a great start! January 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great aid in really understanding how to do almost anything basic in the kitchen - from picking produce at precisely the right time to making cheese in your own home. This is not a cookbook - although some basic recipes are covered for the purpose of instruction.
I got this book and read it cover to cover in one sitting - I discovered I had been doing some things incorrectly or inefficiently, I drooled over the pictures of perfect produce, and really took in every bit of information it provided. The pictures are great and so helpful and the book serves as a great reference for how to do stuff you were never taught how to do.
For example, my mother who makes tasty comfort food, has never purchased fresh chicken or beef from the butcher - I grew up on frozen proteins purchased in bulk, so I never knew what to look for or what to ask for if I wanted to buy from the butcher's counter - I was too intimidated and therefore continued my mother's frozen bulk traditions. With this book as my guide, I am now more comfortable stepping out of my comfort zone and trying something new.
If the other Le Cordon Bleu's books are anything like this, I'm investing in the whole set. :)
 Helpful Photos and Techniques November 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a "technique" book, plain and simple.
You will NOT find numerous recipes for dishes (there are a few), but you will find a blend of visual and textual descriptions about how to technically prepare foods.
This is a superb book if you are looking for clear, wonderful color photos depicting food selection, identification, and cutting techniques, ideas for preparation (forming mushrooms into flowers, etc), and other non-recipe food information that is ACTUALLY USEFUL to an amateur chef.
You will find a few general recipes, but overall this is a great way to visually observe how to perform a myriad of professional techniques.
Excellent May 23, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Le Cordon Bleu's Complete Cooking Techniques: the indispensable reference demonstrates over 700 illustrated techniques with 2,000 photos and 200 recipes
An excellent book, with easy to follow receipes and which allows you to see what the finish product should look like. Would recommend it to anyone.
The ultimate cookbook May 7, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As an avid cookbook collector I have used this cookbook as a basic for many years. I purchased another one for a friend. He owns a restaurant and uses this tool everyday. This is my go to book to find anything! Great for beginners to advanced cooks.
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