Synopsis
Simple French Food
"For twenty years Richard Olney's Simple French Food has been one of my greatest sources of inspiration for cooking at Chez Panisse." --Alice Waters
"I know this book almost by heart. It is a classic of honest French cooking and good writing. Buy it, read it, eat it." --Lydie Marshall
"I need this new edition badly because Simple French Food is the most dog-eared, falling-apart book in my library. Here it is newly bound to enrich one's life." --Kermit Lynch, author of Adventures on the Wine Route
"Simple French Food has the most marvelous French food to appear in print since Elisabeth David's French Provincial Cooking.... The book's greatest virtue is that the author...really teaches you to cook French in a way I've never seen before. Here you acquire the methods, the tour de main, the tricks that are the heart and essence of French food, unforgettable once acquired in this book because of their logical, well-explained presentation." --Nika Hazelton, The New York Times
"I am unable to find an ad equate adjective to express my enthusiasm.... I find Simple French Food marvelous. I have never read a book on French cuisine that has so excited and absorbed me." --Simone Beck
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Richard Olney, best known as a general food writer, is one of America's most erudite experts on authentic French cooking, but it's difficult to find anyone who knows much about him, except for such authorities as Patricia Wells and the late James Beard. The reprinting of Olney's classic and indispensable Simple French Food offers readers the chance to learn more about this most idiosyncratic and accomplished of cooks. No pared down, paint-by-numbers recipes here: Olney is obsessed not only with showing you how to cook, but how to see, smell, feel, listen, and taste as well. Read, for example, Olney's description of Scrambled Eggs and you will understand what you are missing when they are not properly prepared (as they almost never are): "correctly prepared, the softest of barely perceptible curds held in a thickly liquid, smooth, creamy suspension." To scramble eggs, Olney insists on a wooden spoon, a generously buttered copper pan or bain-marie, and a precise control of the temperature--very simple to accomplish, as all his recipes are, as long as you take care to absorb fully his sensuous and exact instructions. --Sumi Hahn Almquist
About the Author
The late Richard Olney was and is an American culinary icon. He was a member of the eminent Académie International du Vin of Provence for many years. He was chief consultant to the Time-Life Good Cook series and was the author of The French Menu Cookbook, Yquem, a history of the wine of Chateau d'Yquem, and Ten Vineyards Lunches.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by the Author (illustrator). Second Printing. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by Richard Olney on the title page. Clean and bright except for one light fingerprint on the foreedge of the page block and one faint gray spot on the red topstain; square, secure binding, full white cloth hard cover modestly softened and rubbed at corners and spine ends, otherwise excellent. Dust jacket bears a tiny, closed tear at the top front, lines of mild toning around the top and bottom rear, a long crease to the front interior flap, very shallow crimping at spine ends, and gentle shelfwear at spine ends and corners, otherwise clean and lovely, not priceclipped, now protected in a clear sleeve.; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 071394
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Hardcover. First Edition, Second Printing. Octavo, 433 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine black, blue, and faded red with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "12.50." Sunning to spine of dust jacket. Rubbing and light tearing to head and tail of spine, edges, and corners of dust jacket. Light age toning and staining to rear cover. Light staining head of book spine and edges of boards. Top edge of textblock dyed red. Light staining and wear to edges of textblock. Inscribed by Olney on half title page. Shelved in Case 12. 1382303. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1382303
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Olney, Richard [ Drawings ] (illustrator). 1st Edition. A very good copy of the first (1974) hard cover edition, stated second printing (November 1974), inscribed and signed by Richard Olney on the half-title page. Dust-jacket is in very good condition as well, with two intact micro-tears along the upper edge of the jacket: one on the spine, and the other at the rear spine seam; else with very moderate wear at the extremities. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance. A beautiful copy of this sumptuous book. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 018680