When one cracks open the big Cooking School: Mastering Classic and Modern French Cuisine by Alain Ducasse et. al. one is immediately enticed by the elegant and simple layout , a book divided by recipes into easy, intermediate, and difficult categories with an extensive and useful appendix. -New York Journal of Books

In this beautiful gift volume, he presents a new, fully updated collection of fabulous recipes and expert lessons to give readers a complete culinary education! A must gift for your favorite foodie! - Epicurus.com Magazine

Alain Ducasse's soup-to-nuts Cooking School is a must for foodies. - Veranda

...an authoritative volume that promises nearly 200 recipes and thousands of step-by-step photographs focused on French cuisine. With a title referencing Ducasse's cooking school in Paris, sections are organized by difficulty level to encourage even novice cooks to add the mother sauces to their repertoires. - Eater.com

If you know someone looking for the step-by-step instructions and images to perfecting French cooking, then this book is their new Bible. From tools to techniques, famed chef Alain Ducasse spells it all out for our ease. - Honest Cooking

This is an important, world-class book. If you bring a copy home, it will not sit on your shelf. You will use it and you'll become a better home chef. And your family will know it! - Cooking by the Book