Compliments to the Chef: Recipes for Julia Child on Her 80th Birthday

Boston: WGBH, 1993. 8vo size spiral bound softcover; 315 bright, white pages with a few black and white photographs; color photo illustrates front cover and a black and white photo illustrates the back cover. A couple of the photos in this volume were taken by Paul Child, Julia's husband and a professional photographer. There is are Indices of Ingredients, Chefs (the recipe contributors) and Restaurants. Recipes are include the name, title, restaurant name and location of the contributor. This is not your typical community cookbook. The skill of the contributor and the quality of the recipe are both very high. Among the many chefs who contributed recipes to this cookbook are: Anthony Ambrose John Ash David Bouley Daniel Bruce Todd English Mary Ann Esposito Bobby Flay Jean Pierre Coyenvalle Robin Haas Emeril Lagasse Jacques Pepin Greg Powell Theo Schoenegger Ana Sortun Charlie Trotter Tony Vallone Pascal Vignau Justin Wilson Terry Zarikian Contents include: Appetizers Soups Entrees Side Dishes Desserts Recipes include: Warm Sweetbread Salad; Crawfish Beignets; Napa Cabbage Timbales with Snails and Wild Mushrooms; Warm Lobster Taco with Yellow Tomato Salsa and Jicama Salad; Grilled Eggplant Steak with Tomato, Black Olive, Feta Cheese Salad and Basil Vinaigrette; Terrine de Volaille pour Julia; Duck Cannelloni with Savoy Cabbage and Wild Mushrooms; Smoked Turkey and Sea Vegetables Canapes with Sesame-Anise Pita Chips; Deep-Fried Calamari with Tomato Nut Chutney and Watercress; Carpaccio of Tuna with Dressing; Oysters with Leeks and Truffles; Artichoke and Garlic Soup; Curried Chicken and Lentil Soup; Oyster Spinach Soup; Crab Gazpacho; Roast Quail with Couscous and Madeira in Vegetable Nests; Estouffade de Lotte au Muscadet; Veal Tenderloin with Shrimp and Oyster Mushrooms in a Fresh Ginger Sauce; Loin Lamb Chops with Jalapeno Preserves; Sun Pueblo Salmon with Cilantro Butter Sauce; Grilled Marinated Florida Jumbo Shrimp with Vine-Ripe Star Anise Sauce; Parmesan Pudding with Sweet Pea Sauce; Josefina Howard's Mexican Chili Chocolate Truffle Cake; Havana Bananas with Rum, Chilies and Chocolate Sauce; White Lily's Daffodil Cake with Jeweled Lemon Sauce; Cream Cheese Tart with Spring Fruit; Hemingway's Maple Charlotte with Charlotte Web; Roasted Pear with Champagne Gastrique, Cracked Black Pepper and Roquefort; Chocolate Hazelnut Bar with Raspberry Sauce; Mango Tart Tatin, more. Edgewear, light wear to covers. . Spiral Comb. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press.