In Julia Child's Kitchen -A How-to For Everyone

    
    In Julia Child's kitchen is a mix of cookbook, textbook, and memoir that will appeal to everyone who likes to cook as well as those who simply enjoy the idea of cooking.
     The recipes, which cover all the basics from cooking oysters and lobsters to perfecting baguettes, are interspersed with how-to's and explanations of technique, as well as many anecdotes from her own experiences in the kitchen and on her early cooking shows. With its charming mix of recipes and stories I've found myself reading it for pleasure as much as for cooking.
     Many of her stories aim at encouraging the amateur chef, and indeed there is something reassuring reading about one of America's premier chefs mess up a soufflé, or practice a fancy way of flipping an omelet she just learned.
     Julia child is aware that many accessories and ingredients are not readily available in the home kitchen, and she shows how to substitute and improvise, and includes a comprehensive list of European vs American measurements. This is information that will help you when tackling other cookbooks, particularly those published in the UK which often have wonderful-but-untranslate-able recipes.
     I only learned after googling the book that it was published as a companion for her TV Show; with only rudimentary knowledge of her show or other books I still use and enjoy it very much.