A guide to modern cookery

Escoffier's landmark manual codified French cuisine into a working system: mother sauces, brigade order, thousands of recipes. It is the foundation on which professional cooking still stands.

At a glance Few cookbooks can claim to have organized an entire cuisine. This one did. Auguste Escoffier took the sprawling, improvised world of French cooking and gave it a… What it's about A Guide to Modern Cookery is the English rendering of Escoffier's Le…

A Guide to Modern Cookery is the English rendering of Escoffier's Le Guide Culinaire, a comprehensive system of professional French cuisine.