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What Diet Books Don't Teach: A book review and a request for more reading
rwkasten
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You are exactly correct.  Both of Pepin's books are heavily-illustrated and provide step-by-step instructions on cooking almost anything.  "Larousse" is the theory, Pepin is the practice.

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What Diet Books Don't Teach: A book review and a request for more reading
rwkasten
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>How do I execute cooking techniques like sauteing and poaching, and which techniques are important to know?

Buy "Larousse Gastronomique".  Feel free to supplement with Jacque Pepin's "La Technique" and "La Methode".

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2gjm
Larousse Gastronomique is excellent, but I would not expect what it says about sautéing or poaching to enable anyone to do those things successfully who was not previously able to. I don't have Pépin's books but my guess is that they would be much more helpful to someone in that situation.