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A guide to modern cookery

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Nutrition & Food

A guide to modern cookery

Auguste Escoffier

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Every professional kitchen still stands on these foundations. Escoffier begins with the fonds de cuisine, the stocks and consommes beneath all French cooking, then builds the entire repertoire above them, course by course. The chef who organized the modern kitchen laid out his complete system here. If you own one serious book from a working master, make it the master's.

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3263 chapters

  1. 1Some Press Opinions
  2. 2A GUIDE TO MODERN COOKERY
  3. 3PREFACE
  4. 4CONTENTS
  5. 5GLOSSARY
  6. 6PART I: Fundamental Elements of Cooking
  7. 7Chapter I: Fonds de Cuisine
  8. 8The Principal Kinds of Fonds de Cuisine
  9. 91—Ordinary or White Consommé
  10. 10Remarks upon the Different Causes which Combine to Influence the Quality of a Consommé
  11. 11The Uses of White Consommé
  12. 122—The Preparation of Clarified Consommé for Clear Soups
  13. 13Remarks upon Clarifications
  14. 143—Chicken Consommé
  15. 154—Fish Consommé
  16. 16Clarification of Fish Consommé
  17. 175—Game Consommé
  18. 18The Clarification of Game Consommés

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