When Claudine Pepin would help he father on his PBS cooking shows, I would wonder when she would write a cookbook of her own. Now she has and it's a delightful introduction to French cooking for new cooks. The recipes are simple and often use ingredients such as instant flour or frozen puff pastry that will make your job easy.

The book is illustrated with color pictures of each recipe as well as charming watercolors by har daughter and her father.

This would be an outstanding cookbook for beginners.

A nice book of approachable French recipes. The instructions were easy to understand. I appreciated that every recipe had a photo and there were other photos of France throughout. Unfortunately, so of the photos were only of ingredients, or the photo of the dish did not match the preparation instructions or components of the dish. Hoping in those cases that there may have been a placeholder used for this advanced review copy that will be updated before publication. I wish there were more recipes, as the book seems a bit short, but it is a good starting point.

The perfect cookbook, I have so much envy that this is not on my cooking bookshelf in my kitchen. The book is beautiful and bright, the text is clear and the recipes are simple yet exciting. The problem I encountered was that it does not work well with the Netgalley app, it is not available in E-book format on the Kindle app, I would struggle to use this day to day in the format it is in, which is unfortunate as the content appeals to me.

This book is filled with beautiful pictures and mouth watering french recipes. The recipes are very suitable for beginners. The directions are clear and concise. I had no trouble following the instructions to make some simple but very delicious food. I enjoyed this book very much. I would definitely recommend this too anyone who wishes to try their hand at french cooking.

French Cooking for Beginners: Simple and Delicious Recipes for French Food for Any Meal is a cute little cookbook with recipes for several classic French recipes, as well as a few that are not quite as well known. The author, Claudine Pepin, daughter of famous television chef, Jacques Pepin. She has appeared with her father on television, and has won several awards, including Woman of the Year by the Academie Culinaire de France – Filiale des Etats Unis. With those credentials, one would expect her cookbooks to be excellent, and this one is.

Anyone who is a beginning French cook and doesn’t have a lot of cooking skills will be able to not only learn techniques to help them, but also to prepare delicious picture-perfect French dishes at home. The recipes are written in the traditional manner, and are easy-to-follow. The limited number of recipes could be considered a drawback, but the ones that are included are definitely appealing and will be dishes almost everyone will want to make and eat.

The photographs are beautiful, and there is a photograph of every recipe, which is important to most cooks, but especially necessary for beginners so that they can see what their finished product should look like.

This is a great book to add to a good recipe collection, and a good cookbook to start younger chefs out with so that they can learn the basics of French cooking. The recipes are mostly easy to make, but the end results are delicious. This one is highly recommended.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.