>>22016330
it's really a mixed bag, there's some gems but it's definitely old school french and usually not in a good way compared to contemporary approaches
not to mention that it assumes you're using extremely high quality ingredients like she did which explains the frequent lack of seasoning in recipes like yeah i guess a roast chicken with literally nothing on it would be a lot better if i bought a $40/lb specialty breed but i'm not doing that

>>22016347
>frequent lack of seasoning in recipes
Leek and Potato soup which involved 2 quarts of water, 1 lb of potato and 1 lb of leek and she says to use 1 tbsp of salt lol

>>22016376
exactly, and she doesn't note the exorbitant price and effort put into sourcing the absolute best quality french ingredients possible, probably fuckin leeks from poireaux de créances (~$10/lb in france) and the ever famous ratte du touquet potatoes (up to $10 per potato in france) like yeah sure i'd love to try the intricate flavors of the absolute highest quality produce grown on earth that can only be procured in france or bought specialty in EU/NYC exclusively but i can't and won't

>>22016330
>unknown gem
Just buy le guide culinaire. It has like 5000 recipes. And while many are sameish you can still find something new. Most French cookbooks are epigoni anyways.

>>22016382
Bruv, I looked up ratte du touquet potatoes:
https://neary.fr/en/products/pommes-de-terre-ratte-du-touquet-bourriche-5-kg-cat-i-france
I literally pay more for the cheapest store brand potatoes where I live and they're often already sprouted and bruised kek Ty for introducing me to a new potato cultivar I hadn't heard of I suppose.

>>22016542
that's sick, cheapest i can get even on account here in NA is closer to 20USD/kg

>>22016347
>>22016376
jesus, wtf Julia

>>22016542
>I literally pay more for the cheapest store brand potatoes where I live
Where? Here in Germany i could get like 10 kg for 5€ of the cheapest potatoes and those are even often regional.

>>22016554
Based and deserved

>>22016330
what exactly made you think that a book that's never gone out of print since 1961 is a "hidden gem"?

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>>22016621
I'm in Flanders. I never really paid much attention to potato prices before everything got crazy expensive but I always get a bit pissy about having to pay like €4.50-6 for a 2kg bag of generic store brand potatoes. Maybe they're expensive because of the farmers strikes or whatever. Actually I just looked up the reason and apparently it has something to do with a large part of the supply going to french fry production or something.

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>>22016330
did anyone watch the recent hbo show? i thought it wasnt actually very bad.