TWO JULIA CHILD COOKBOOKS

Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Volume 2 (only)
By Julia Child and Simone Beck
1997 (25th Printing)
Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Trade Paperback, 555 pages
plus 63 page Index

AND

THE WAY TO COOK
By Julia Child
Photographs by Brian Leatart & Jim Scherer
1989 First Edition
Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Hardcover & Dust Jacket, 511 pages


MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING (VOL. 2): The beloved sequel to the bestselling classic, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume II presents more fantastic step-by-step French recipes for home cooks. Working from the principle that “mastering any art is a continuing process,” Julia Child and Simone Beck gathered together a brilliant selection of new dishes to bring you to a yet higher level of culinary mastery.They have searched out more of the classic dishes and regional specialties of France, and adapted them so that Americans, working with American ingredients, in American kitchens, can achieve the incomparable flavors and aromas that bring up a rush of memories—of lunch at a country inn in Provence, of an evening at a great Paris restaurant, of the essential cooking of France. From French bread to salted goose, from peasant ragoûts to royal Napoleons, recipes are written with the same detail, exactness, and clarity that are the soul of Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

THE WAY TO COOK:  Julia Child’s most inspiring, creative, and instructive cookbook, The Way to Cook is a testament to the satisfactions of good home cooking by the incomparable author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. In this one-of-a-kind cookbook,Julia Child distills a lifetime of cooking into 800 recipes emphasizing lightness, freshness, and simplicity. Chapters are structured around master recipes, followed by innumerable variations that are easily made once the basics are understood. For example, make Julia’s simple but impeccably prepared sauté of chicken, and before long you're easily whipping up Chicken with Mushrooms and Cream, Chicken Provençale, Chicken Pipérade, or Chicken Marengo. Or master her perfect broiled butterflied chicken, and you’ll soon be including Deviled Rabbit or Split Cornish Game Hens Broiled with Cheese on your menu. Here home cooks will find a treasure trove of poultry and fish recipes, as well as a vast array of fresh vegetables prepared in new ways, along with bread doughs and delicious indulgences, such as Caramel Apple Mountain or a Queen of Sheba Chocolate Almond Cake with Chocolate Leaves. And if you want to know how a finished dish should look or how to angle your knife or to fashion a pretty rosette on a cake, there are more than 600 color photographs to entice and instruct you along the way.

There is a dated inscription in pen on the first ednpaper of The Way To Cook book, but that's about it Only minor cover wear and almost Like New for both. Big books, a heavy lot.