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Madeleine Kamman

ISBN 10: 0688152546 / 0-688-15254-6
ISBN 13: 9780688152543
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover

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Review:

"In her new version, a whopper at more than a thousand pages, Kamman incorporates new cooking techniques and brings her recipes into line with modern thinking on diet and nutrition....Kamman has written her book for the budding professional or the serious amateur who wants to achieve pre-professional expertise....Kamman's tome stands as a monolith, issuing a challenge to every cook with ambition, determination and the biceps to lift it off the shelf."

William Grimes, New York Times Book Review, 12/07/1997

Review:

"First, let it be said that this is an impressive work, if only for the sheer volume of material it contains and the well-researched and often useful commentary....[But] the curiously eclectic choice of recipes makes it difficult to find any unifying force....If the book included more straightforward master recipes, the more personal, somewhat offbeat dishes...might be viewed as charming variations on a theme instead of offerings that pull the core of the book off center....When she is good, she is very, very good, but when she abandons rigor for idiosyncrasy, the book falls short of its considerable potential."

Christopher Kimball, Cook's Illustrated, May/June 1998