Simone "Simca" Beck is known to millions of Americans as Julia Child's French partner in the creation of the two classic volumes of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Simca's Cuisine offers up her own delectable recipes - the ones she most treasured form a lifetime of cooking creativity that made her one of the great cuisinières of her day. Here are recipes that were inspired by old French family specialties found in her mother's and grandmother's well-thumbed notebooks; recipes that grew out of Simca's life in the provinces (particularly Normandy, Alsace, and Provence), where she gardened, cooked, dined out, and entertained - simple delights and fabulous concoctions all set down with a beautiful clarity. Skillfully adapting French ways to American needs, Simca's Cuisine presents over one hundred recipes in thirty-one alluring menus designed for every sort of occasion, from the informal "earthy dinner for high-spirited friends" - centered around a cassoulet with duck and hot sausages - to the ornate "spectacular dinner with champagne" that begins with salmon or striped bass in brioche. (6 X 9, 368 pages, illustrations)
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
Original Language: French
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Simone "Simca" Beck is known to millions of Americans as Julia Child's French partner in the creation of the two classic volumes of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Simca's Cuisine offers up her own delectable recipes - the ones she most treasured form a lifetime of cooking creativity that made her one of the great cuisinières of her day. Here are recipes that were inspired by old French family specialties found in her mother's and grandmother's well-thumbed notebooks; recipes that grew out of Simca's life in the provinces (particularly Normandy, Alsace, and Provence), where she gardened, cooked, dined out, and entertained - simple delights and fabulous concoctions all set down with a beautiful clarity. Skillfully adapting French ways to American needs, Simca's Cuisine presents over one hundred recipes in thirty-one alluring menus designed for every sort of occasion, from the informal "earthy dinner for high-spirited friends" - centered around a cassoulet with duck and hot sausages - to the ornate "spectacular dinner with champagne" that begins with salmon or striped bass in brioche. (6 X 9, 368 pages, illustrations)
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Simca's Cuisine by Simone Beck,
By Manleigh J. Higman (Mammoth Lakes, California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Simca's Cuisine (Cook's Classic Library) (Paperback)
I was given an hardbound copy in 1973. I used several of the recipes for intertaining. My quests were delighted and so was I. As one of your reviewers had said that most recipes were high in "butterfat" content. But that is the way with "French" cooking. I highly recommend this book to all "Francophile" cooks and chefs. It is a pleasure to read and experience.
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Charming Book and Delicious Recipes,
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This review is from: Simca's Cuisine (Cook's Classic Library) (Paperback)
I just noticed this title while browsing through the Amazon cookbook section. I've owned this book since it was first published maybe 20 years ago. It is one of the most charmingly written cookbooks I've read and the recipes are delicious, though quite high in butterfat. I thinks it's worth reading just for the "charm" aspect.
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indispensible cookbook,
By Cybele_now-L "conniel129" (France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simca's Cuisine (Hardcover)
One of the cookbooks from which you learn as much about life and how to celebrate as about how to cook the universally-delicious recipes. Organized on the principal of complete dinners or lunches, with seasonal references and preferences, and thoughtful suggestions about a celebratory dinner for one's publisher (or other visiting dignitary) and also for a lively group of friends who'd enjoy a spicy version of cassoulet. My old copy is worn and tattered and much beloved so I was delighted to see it still available for order...this time for a friend, who was as enchanted as I had hoped she would be. Simca vivat! And Julia, too, naturally!
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