Len Deighton’s French Cooking for Men: 50 Classic Cookstrips for Today’s Action Men

Review\nPraise for Action Cook Book:
'Len Deighton's Action Cook Book is not a good cookbook. It is a shockingly good cookbook Village Voice
'How does one go about achieving some Harry Palmer style? Details first. Remember, Palmer is a gourmet, so get hold of the Len Deighton Action Cook Book'
GQ magazine
'Cooking as I'd never seen it: fun, cheeky, male and promising the awesome prospect of sex The taut clarity of Deighton's writing, his encyclopaedic knowledge and attention to detail The prose reads like Dashiell Hammett channelling Brillat-Savarin' Waitrose Food Illustrated
'They showed the idiot novice male how to dice an onion without it falling apart; how to fine-cut parsley by rocking the blade rather than chopping it; how to sauté mushrooms without them yielding the water that would turn them into gelatinous glop' SIMON SCHAMA
As packed full with information as an egg is iwth meat. Although he barely assumes that his readers know where their mouoths are at the outset he never appears to be wasting time going over old ground. It is his freshness, in all his text as well as in the brilliant idea of the strips themselves, which puts him among the most attractive and usable cookery writers we have
The Journal of the Wine & Food Society --Amazon\nA new edition of the celebrated cookery classic, featuring 50 cookstrips that will solve the mysteries of French cuisine and unlock the key to 500 memorable dishes.
No one has more logically or appealingly cracked the code to French cookery than Len Deighton. Now, in this redesigned and updated edition, his culinary classic is looking better than ever.
Through the minefield of menus and cartes des vins he steers a reassuring course, outlining:
50 celebrated cookstrips that ingeniously reveal techniques and vital food facts at a glance
a lexique of French/English culinary terms plus a guide to the French menu and wine list
a comprehensive and easy-to-follow chart of sauces
French cheese, charcuterie, butchery and ways with the vegetable!
Len Deighton s French Cooking for Men solves the mysteries of French cuisine, while retaining its mystique. Here is everything you want to know about French home cooking presented in a form so usable and appealing you will wonder how you ever got along without it.