Le Cordon Bleu Cuisine Foundations Classic Recipes Spiral Bound Book

A wonderful book if you are an aspiring chef or want to improve your chef skills! The Chefs of Le Cordon Bleu Founded in Paris in 1895, Le Cordon Bleu has trained several generations of chefs worldwide while instilling its unique passion for the art of cuisine. Today, Le Cordon Bleu is the preeminent culinary arts educational experience worldwide and its very name is synonymous with culinary excellence. Learning Outcomes, Equipment, Method & Serving are explained. Spiralbound makes it easy to have on the counter while preparing recipes. Well photographed to show ingredients, method & finished recipe. (My photos are darker and shadowed but the ones in the book are clear.) Cuisine Foundations Classic Recipes features 169 recipes that together represent a definitive summing up of French culinary technique as it has been practiced for the past 300 years. These recipes have been carefully selected by Le Cordon Bleu to convey the history and evolution of French culinary technique and its strong influence on today’s chefs. Through these recipes, we learn what influenced French cooking and how these traditional techniques have embraced the introduction of new ingredients and flavors, from Champignons a la turque to Oeufs frits Mexicain Designed to celebrate the classic techniques taught by Le Cordon Bleu, all of the recipes feature full-color photographs of the dish as it was prepared. Published 2011, 224 pages