| Sauces |  | Author: Michel Roux
Publisher: Viking Australia
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
ISBN: 0670876054
EAN: 9780670876051
ASIN: 0670876054
Publication Date: April 1, 1997
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 The Essence of Menu Choice March 20, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
When choosing a menu selection, how often do we linger over the sauce description that accompanies a meat or fish dish? Personally speaking ... each and every time. Without trying, it is the prospect of a sauce taste-explosion that swings me - Light Lamb Gravy scented with Lavender Honey has to be more appealing than Lamb in a Tasty Sauce; and so it goes on. This book has revolutionised the way that I choose what we eat. Almost the best way to explore this book is to read through the various sauce recipes and then hope that it goes with what we have in the fridge. A better way is to select the meat or fish that you fancy and then hot-foot it to the clever index that stipulates which sauces go with which meat/fish. The world is your oyster with this book - but I would say that it is important to have a good amount of culinary expertise. This is not a book for start-out beginners - too frustrating and difficult without understanding the fundamentals. However, any beginner who buys the book and enjoys at least one of the sauces will soon want to be an assured cook - if only to enjoy the result. In essence ... the sauce is not a bystander, it is absolutely fundamental. And absolutely worth it. The book contains the wow factor many many times over.
 Dinner Parties March 22, 2005
2 out of 16 found this review helpful
This book is fine if you have a lot of dinner parties but for the everyday working man and woman, I don't think so. Raspberry vinegar and Vincent sauce? Not quite what I had in mind but as I said, fine for entertaining, well maybe... My copy is about to be discarded.
Great Sauces June 18, 2004
39 out of 42 found this review helpful
Having read and used this wonderul book, I was rather suprised to see that 'a reader from faringdon' gave it only 1 star and said "These sauces are far too complicated for everyday use." Nothing could be further from the truth.
I don't know what this reader expected when she bought a book of Michel Roux's sauce recipes (perhaps she was expecting instruction on how to open a bottle of tomato ketchup or advice on the right amount of hot water to add to gravy granules) but in reality these sauces are simple, uncomplicated and very tasty.
In short, with the help of this book anyone with a modicum of culinary nouse will be able to produce fantastic sauces in less time than it takes our reader from faringdon to defrost a frozen pizza for her kids.
 too complicated December 26, 2003
5 out of 33 found this review helpful
These sauces are far too complicated for everyday use. If you're a busy Mum you don't have the time (or inclination) to boil veal bones and make fresh vegetable stock for every meal. I was very disappointed with the book although I would enjoy eating the end product if someone else had prepared it.
Comprehensive, clear and "saucy"... November 25, 2002
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
A very comprehensive guide to traditional and non-traditional sauces, including dressings, gravies, stocks etc. A simple to understand, no-nonsense approach, well organised and also suggests what food should go with what sauce.
If you want to learn about sauces you needn't buy anything else after this book. Excellent.
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