The French Cook: Soups and Stews Hardcover – September 1, 2014

I love the beautiful photos and delicious recipes! Wonderfully written book with easy to follow instructions. You don’t need to come from France to cook like you’ve lived in the French countryside. Yum!

When the recipes are REALLY really French, you can always tell. They are cleaner, tighter just flat dab taste better, more artfully made. Even when I make them. Join me. I laugh at myself, but NEVER the food.

Somehow I got this book for free, or almost. I love to eat and cook French food, and even my French wife thinks I'm pretty good.This is an excellent addition to a cook's bookshelf. It is not as wide ranging in scope as say Rene Verdon or others well known, but the recipes it contains are authentic without the pretentiousness. For example I made an outstanding cassoulet using a rotisserie chicken instead of duck, one of the author's wise tips for saving money and labor without compromising the result. I actually read her stuff, it's not just for decoration.

Lovely photographs (even in the ebook version) accompany the recipes as well as a wealth of helpful hints and tips. I spent the morning reading through it and enjoying making plans of what I'm going to make first (the mushroom soup). I see myself coming back to this cookbook over and over for years to come.

Amazing book!! Some of the best food I've ever eaten came from recipes from this treasure.

Easy recipes. Not to many ingredients and items you have or can buy at your local grocer. Simple yummy soups and stews. Also gives you easy homemade stock recipes. Beautiful book.

A lot of great info and soups

Great book as to be expected from Holly Herrick