Le Cordon Bleu Cuisine Foundations

Presents the concepts and techniques of classic French cuisine. This work traces French culinary technique and foundations back through the 20th-century codification by Auguste Escoffier to the earlier innovations of Jules Gouffe, Urbain Dubois, Antonin Careme, and other noted chefs of earlier generations.

Le Cordon Bleu Cuisine Foundations presents the definitive concepts and techniques of classic French cuisine in an artfully designed package that captures the rich tradition of Le Cordon Bleu in a contemporary, international setting. Extensively researched, this landmark texts traces French culinary technique and foundations back through the 20th-century codification by Auguste Escoffier to the earlier innovations of Jules Gouffe, Urbain Dubois, Antonin Careme, and other noted chefs of earlier generations to deliver a truly authoritative work. Illustrated with thousands of highly detailed photographs that reveal the proper cooking and preparation techniques, Le Cordon Bleu Cuisine Foundations passes the exceptional history of traditional, modern, nouvelle, and actual French cuisine on to a new generation of culinarians.

Chapter 1: Introduction - A Life and Career in the Kitchen Chapter 2: The Professional Kitchen Chapter 3: Techniques and Basic Preparations Chapter 4: Les cuissons - The seven classic cooking methods Chapter 5: Technical and Fabrication sheets
Glossary
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