Le Cordon Bleu Complete Cooking Techniques

by Le Cordon Bleu Chefs

• ISBN13: 9780688152062
• ISBN10: 0688152066
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-09
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

BATTERIE DE CUISINE	10	(5)
STOCKS & SOUPS	15	(14)
EGGS, CHEESE & CREAM	29	(18)
FISH & SHELLFISH	47	(40)
POULTRY & GAME	87	(30)
MEAT	117	(40)
VEGETABLES & SALADS	157	(36)
LEGUMES, GRAINS & NUTS	193	(12)
PASTA	205	(16)
SAUCES & DRESSINGS	221	(10)
BREAD & YEAST DOUGHS	231	(16)
FRUITS	247	(24)
DESSERTS	271	(22)
PASTRY	293	(14)
CAKES & COOKIES	307	(20)
GENERAL INFORMATION	327	(9)
GLOSSARY	336	(4)
INDEX	340	(11)
RECIPE INDEX	351	(1)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	352