More of a textbook than cookbook
I was looking for a book on sauces, and I got one. Every sauce since history, most of which are impractical if you are not a chef, but an ocasional good cook at home. It was an amazing book though I read it cover to cover (it's huge), but I'll probbly only ever use 1/3 of it. Worth it if you read cookbooks like history, skip it if you want to learn to make these sauces.

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Must have for cooking.
I ordered this hoping it was what I wanted. A book to guide me and help me understand how to make different types sauces. This book delivered big time. I now consider it a part of my cooking basics.

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EXCELLENT
you will be the ruler of all sauces with this great book. only complaint that it is so good my friends and colleagues constantly ask to borrow it.

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sauce james
we bought this book for my son- he is in his first year of culinary school in dallas. he wants to specialize in sauces and was thrilled with this book. it is the best sauce book on the market.

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SAUCES: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY SAUCE MAKING
THIS IS A FABULOUS "BIBLE" OF SAUCES. IF YOU WANT IT ALL, HERE IT IS. I WAS SO DELIGHTED WHEN I RECEIVED IT AND DUG RIGHT IT. NOT ONLY ARE ALL THE SAUCES WITH THEIR HOW-RECIPES IN THIS BOOK BUT ALSO SOME HISTORY ON HOW THEY CAME ABOUT. THOSE GREAT SAUCES YOU SOMTIMES RECEIVE IN FANCY RESTAURANTS, THE KIND YOU WISH YOU KNEW HOW TO MAKE...ARE ALL HERE PLUS MORE. ANY COOK WISHING TO BETTER HIM OR HERSELF SHOULD PICK UP A COPY OF JAMES PETERSON'S SAUCES; CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY SAUCE AND MAKE IT REQUIRED READING.