The Complete Robuchon , by Joël Robuchon, Autographed

This is the definitive guide to modern-day French cooking. Master chef Joël Robuchon gives virtually the entire French culinary repertoire adapted for the home cook. Here are more than 800 precise, easy-to-follow, step-by-step recipes, including Robuchon’s updated versions of great classics—pot-au-feu, sole meunière, cherry custard tart—as well as dozens of less well-known but equally scrumptious salads, roasts, gratins, and stews. Here, too, is a surprising variety of regional specialties and such essential favorites as scrambled eggs. Emphasizing quality ingredients and the brilliant but simple marriage of candid flavors, Robuchon encourages the beginner with jargon-free instructions in technique, while offering the practiced cook exciting paths for experimentation. For this book, ‘autographed’ refers to a signed bookplate. Available online, in the catalog and select stores only. Limited to stock on hand.