My Master Recipes: 165 Recipes to Inspire Confidence in the Kitchen *With Dozens of Variations

At her cooking schools in Paris and Provence, Patricia Wells’s students leave with more confidence in the kitchen than they ever experienced before. Now, home cooks can learn from the master, known for her collections of delectable, precise, and well-tested, recipes.

Here Patricia Wells codifies the skills she imparts in her classes in this inviting instruction manual and cookbook. Each of the recipes teaches particular techniques - blanching, searing, simmering, sweating, steaming, braising, deep-frying - with additional recipes that take your skills in directions both savory and sweet, simple and profound - giving you the knowledge and assurance to expand your cooking even further.