La Technique by Jacques Pépin, a classic instructional guide that has shaped generations of chefs. Jacques Pepin cookbook, La Technique, French cooking techniques, culinary training guide. Step-by-step instructional photographs for mastering core cooking techniques.
This is the most explicit how to work in a kitchen book that even if you think your hot in cooking, you will not know even a 1/3 of the basics in preparing food. You may know how to throw together ingredients and they come out great, but you will never master the true prep and follow thru without the knowledge in this book. This is only for a cookbook collector that wants to know what they are not doing right in preparing. If you're looking for a receipt book this is not what you want.
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