Simca's Cuisine: One Hundred Classic French Recipes for Every Occasion

By Simone Beck

Book Overview

Millions know Simone "Simca" Beck as Julia Child's French partner in creating the two unforgettable volumes of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Simca's Cuisine offers the delectable recipes that Beck personally treasured most. She presents family specialties from the well-thumbed notebooks of her mother and grandmother as well as recipes from her life in Normandy, Alsace, and Provence where she gardened, cooked, and entertained. Skillfully adapting French ways to American needs, Simca's Cuisine gives us both simple delights and fabulous concoctions presented with elegant clarity and delightful illustrations. Menus range from informal dinners that include a beef, lamb, and pork stew from "After a winter walk in the woods" and a baked apple dessert from "Autumn in Normandy" to more formal lunches and dinners that include "A gala Sunday lunch" with its saut ed trout with an almond cream sauce and "A spectacular dinner with champagne" that begins with salmon in brioche. With a charming foreword by Julia Child--her student, co-author, collaborator, and friend for forty years--here is a cookbook truly for every occasion.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762792981
• ISBN13: 9780762792986
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: The Globe Pequot Publishing Group, Inc.
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

indispensible cookbook

One of the cookbooks from which you learn as much about life and how to celebrate as about how to cook the universally-delicious recipes. Organized on the principal of complete dinners or lunches, with seasonal references and preferences, and thoughtful suggestions about a celebratory dinner for one's publisher (or other visiting dignitary) and also for a lively group of friends who'd enjoy a spicy version of cassoulet. My old copy is worn and tattered and much beloved so I was delighted to see it still available for order...this time for a friend, who was as enchanted as I had hoped she would be. Simca vivat! And Julia, too, naturally!

Simca's Cuisine by Simone Beck

I was given an hardbound copy in 1973. I used several of the recipes for intertaining. My quests were delighted and so was I. As one of your reviewers had said that most recipes were high in "butterfat" content. But that is the way with "French" cooking. I highly recommend this book to all "Francophile" cooks and chefs. It is a pleasure to read and experience.