http://www.microsoft.com/MasterChef/CD/CD.htm (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)
Do you know how to select a good olive oil, or the right way to melt chocolate or dice an onion? Can you tell when steaks are done? Want to know an easy way to clean salad greens? How about the quickest way to puree garlic?Whether you are an accomplished cook or mystified by the microwave, you can learn the answers from the masters in Microsoft's new interactive cooking CD-ROM, Julia Child: Home Cooking with Master Chefs.
Great food and great entertaining are now within easier reach since Microsoft teamed with Julia Child and 16 all-star chefs to create the title. It includes 25 interactive, step-by-step video lessons, 250 cooking tips, more than 100 recipes, some 400 photographic articles on ingredients and cookware, and 5 specially commissioned guided tours of Child's kitchen -- all designed to share the knowledge and assurance you need to create fun, great-tasting, memorable meals without a misstep.
LESSONS, TIPS AND TOURS
In 25 detailed lessons you can watch the master chefs at work on an entire recipe, or focus on just a technique or step of particular interest. As the lessons unfold, the chefs explain how to fix the recipes that made them famous, and offer personal insights, tips and food lore.
Some 250 cooking tips distill the accumulated wisdom of the chefs to give bites of valuable information. The tips cover the best way to choose fresh vegetables, roast a chicken, knead bread dough, and much more. They explain why you don't have to be Jewish to prefer kosher salt (use it if you like its coarse-grained crystals and a taste less salty than table salt), how to judge the right frying pan to sear steaks (choose one big enough so that the food is not crowded), and the fastest way to puree garlic (rub it over the tines of a fork).
In 5 guided tours of her pantry, kitchen, and wine cellar, Child provides a fun foundation to the basics of fine home cooking. You'll learn her trade secrets and preferences on a range of subjects, such as how to choose eggs and oils, which knives are essential to own and why, which corkscrew works wonders for her and which causes her cork to crumble.
On a practical note, this title helps you save time in both the kitchen and the supermarket by automatically scaling many recipes to serve a desired number of people. You can then print out custom, comprehensive shopping lists. The CD-ROM's audio pronunciation guide tells you how to say the names of ingredients and dishes that may be in French, Italian or other languages.
A WHO'S WHO OF CULINARY AMERICA IS A MOUSE-CLICK AWAY
You'll meet each of the 16 master chefs through Child's narrated photo biographies. Text describes their culinary careers, favorite ingredients, and what they like to cook at home. They represent a full range of food traditions and innovations. Child selected Charles Palmer of Aureole and Alva in New York; Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, partners at Border Grill in Santa Monica; Emeril Lagasse of Emeril's and NOLA in New Orleans; Andre Soltner of Lutece in New York; Jeremiah Tower of Stars in San Francisco; Lidia Bastianich of Felidia in New York; Patrick Clark of Tavern on the Green in New York; Michel Richard of Citrus in Los Angeles and Citronelle in Santa Barbara; Amy Furguson-Ota of The Ritz-Carlton Mauna Lai in Hawaii; Robert Del Grande of Cafe Annie in Houston; Nancy Silverton of La Brea Bakery & Companile in Los Angeles; Jan Birnbaum of Catahoula in the Napa Valley; Jean-Louis Palladin of Jean-Louis at the Watergate in Washington, D.C.; Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in Berkeley; and Jacques Pepin, chef-at-large.
JULIA SAYS.....
"I've written books and hosted television shows, but this CD-ROM combines the best features of both and offers instruction that I could never before share with my readers and viewers as easily. I don't think it's ever been simpler to partake of the noble hobby of fine cooking and to prepare great meals that you'll be proud to serve."
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
To use Julia Child: Home Cooking with Master Chefs, users need a multimedia PC or compatible with a 386SX or higher microprocessor; the Microsoft(R) Windows(R) version 3.1 or Windows(R) 95 operating system; 4 MB of RAM; 6 MB of available hard-disk space; double-speed CD-ROM drive; an audio board; a VGA or higher-resolution monitor with minimum 256-color support; Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device; and headphones or speakers.
Call 1-800-457-9530 to order direct (in the U.S. only), or see your reseller.
