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How long does it take to read Julia's Kitchen Wisdom?

Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking

Julia Child

Julia's Kitchen Wisdom by Julia Child takes about 2 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 2 hours 56 minutes

An evening's read

First published 2000. 160 pages, about 44,000 words.

6 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 4 hours 53 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 2 hours 56 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 50 minutes

The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

How many minutes should you cook green beans? Is it better to steam them or to boil them?What are the right proportions for a vinaigrette?How do you skim off fat?What is the perfect way to roast a chicken?Julia Child gave us extensive answers to all these questions--and so many more--in the masterly books she published over the course of her career. But which one do you turn to for which solutions? Over the years Julia also developed some new approaches to old problems, using time-saving equipment and more readily available products. So where do you locate the latest findings?All the answers are close to hand in this indispensable little volume: the delicious, comforting, essential compendium of Julia's kitchen wisdom--a book you can't do without.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Subjects: Cookery, Cooking & Food, Nonfiction, Cooking, Cookbooks

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