About this title: Based on Julia Child's original television program from the 1960s, the recipes in this cookbook illustrate her simple and commonsense approach to French cuisine that made it accessible to millions of home cooks.
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Edition: Book Club Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knoff
Date Published: 1977
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket. Book would be as new if not for couple of minor tiny light stains on fly pages. Inside pages are clean and spotless and book probably was never used. DC shows signs of age, although is complete with no tears. We have added a new Mylar Jacket (at no extra charge) to protect this book for long lasting wear. The complete collection of the first 119 shows on TV done by Julia that made her famous. This is a complete cookbook, and is in order of the shows, ie. ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1968
ISBN-13:9780394401355ISBN:0394401352
Description: Very good in fair dust jacket. Dust jacket is worn with a few small tears and a large stain along the spine. The interior is clean and unmarked. 424 p. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bantam, New York
Date Published: 1971
Description: Good. 12mo 467p + photographic insert. massmarket paperback. 3rd printing of the Bantam edition. Exterior is lightly stained and edgeworn. Pages are yellowed, but clean, except for one small stain on the very first page (the blurb page). Features every recipe demonstrated during the first season of Julia Child's television show The French Chef. Great reading copy. read more
Edition: Eleventh Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knoff, NY
Date Published: 1977
Description: Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine The complete collection of the first 119 shows on TV done by Julia that made her famous. This is a complete cookbook, and is in order of the shows, ie. The Mushroom Show, The Soup Show, etc etc. A truly classic book for any one who loves Julia. 6x9 424 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780553202380ISBN:0553202383
Description: Good No jacket. 1981 Paperback. There is a library stamp inside the cover, no other markings. The book does show moderate wear to the cover. A few of the pages inside the book have folds. The pages have discolored from age, but no other markings. Fast shipping with confi. read more
Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ALFRED A KNOPF
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780375710063ISBN:037571006X
Description: New. All the recipes that Julia Child demonstrated on her first public television series, "The French Chef--the 119 shows that made Julia a household name and changed forever the way Americans cook. read more
Publisher: American Horticultural Society, Mt. Vernon
Date Published: 1976
Description: Uncommon magazine of her recipes w/loose inserts of recipes from Cuisinarts (a benefactor to this magazine), etc; ads, illustrations, 26pps, VG. read more
"I didn't get this book for myself, so understand that this review is second-hand. I got it for my wife as part of a Julia Child theme birthday gift (she got the pearls, too) after I had taken her to see the movie "Julie & Julia". She couldn't put it down and was noting pages and recipes while wearing her new pearls. It is a very unique cookbook as you would expect from Julia Child. Any cook (or kook) would love it."
"If you have been ordering the old French Chef TV series to watch, purchasing a lot of eggs, butter and cream, this is the book you want. I am enjoying it a lot. It isn't just recipes from the TV series, it has a lot of background on Julia and how the series was produced. Not all of this was in Julie and Julia, the new movie. I tend to read cookbooks as novels and collect vintage cookbooks so I see history in the making in them. Since we have been watching The French Chef series we weren't writing out the recipes, except now we see they aren't all in this book. That was disappointing. But it does say which show # a recipe is from. We have been cooking from the book and find it a delight. Being a pocketbook paperback with a tight binding doesn't make it easy to lay out and read the recipe. But all in all, it is a delight to cook and eat these lovely recipes and read the stories that come along with it. A little more fun is that the recipe titles are in English and French so we are picking up a little French, and think we are sounding quite cosmopolitan to boot. Voila!"
"I loved the show on PBS. I bought the book with my birthday money and proudly brought it home to show my mother. She looked at me as if I were crazy. "Your father," she said, "would never eat this stuff." And, she pointed out that most of the recipes weren't kosher. I was crushed.
However, we found some recipes that would work...mainly desserts. And I took the book with me when I left home. I have used it frequently over the years. More than anything, as I read the recipes and instructions, I can hear Julia's excitement and passion as it used to boom from the tv screen and enthralled me as a teen."
"I thought that since the second book was nice this would be also. It was difficult to find recipes since it was organized by episodes. There are better book out today."
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