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Cooking with Les Dames d'Escoffier: At Home with the Women Who Shape the Way We Eat and Drink

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I've done the best cooking of my life since I got COOKING WITH LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER. With this cookbook you invite LES DAMES, women everyone should know, into your kitchen. You begin with their favorite recipes chosen out of an abundant melting pot of great recipes. Then as you cook, they are "tapping you on your shoulder" with just those tips you need to make the recipe turn out great--from the "dip and sweep" method of measuring flour to the perfect finishing touches to make your dish look divine--a garnish of sauteed spinach, a drizzle of olive oil, or a glaze of rose water and confectioners' sugar. With the detailed directions for these obviously thoroughly tested recipes, what looks complicated is amazingly easy, and downright enjoyable in the doing and in the dining. The sidebars with cooking lore as well as shopping and serving advice from LES DAMES add to your culinary experience. If you're like me, you'll leave your kitchen eager to return to try something new or to make again your new favorite. And, this cookbook, a new favorite gift to give my friends, with its inviting layout and beautiful photographs--and did I mention the flavorful content?

Since I purchased the book a few weeks ago, I tried a few of the recipes. The book is very well written and it is very easy to follow. The recipes that I made were amazing and I'm looking forward to trying the others. I purchased a few more as Christmas presents. I am sure my friends will enjoy it as much as I have.

This cookbook is amazingly well written with clear instructions. With so many well known and accomplished women of food having contributed recipes, it can seem intimidating, but Marcella Rosen did a great job at making this accessible for the average cook.
I have tried many of the recipes and they are fabulous! This is a cookbook to give to friends who love food. It is a buy, buy, buy.

I bought this book because I lived in many of the cities where the authors originate from. The names will be instantly recognisable by foodies as legends of the business, and the book therefore has great cred. I bought it mainly to bask in the writings and wisdom of the great chefs it includes, Only comment (not criticism, just warning) is that most of the recipes are not for everyday use. If you are looking for simple recipes you can throw together for the day's family meal this is probably not it. If you are looking for special recipes that are do-able, albeit with some prep and special ingredient shopping, this will help you. If you are looking for a really great "bible" on food, I would recommend Alice Waters' The Art of Simple Food. Waters is also included in this book.

A great collection of recipes and tips from the homes of so many of the women who create and influence what we eat and the places where we eat it.... mostly simple, straight forward recipes, wonderful dishes easily prepared without a great amount of fuss, along with a few more involved items. Rosene & Mozersky, and all their fellow Dames, have given us a keeper.