Professional Cooking by Wayne Gisslen. This is a somewhat expensive textbook (though you can find steeply discounted used copies of earlier editions on Amazon and Abebooks.com) used in culinary schools, and it's excellent in terms of teaching you that curriculum. The "mother sauces" is an entire chapter of the book.
Professional Cooking by Wayne Gisslen. This is a somewhat expensive textbook (though you can find steeply discounted used copies of earlier editions on Amazon and Abebooks.com) used in culinary schools, and it's excellent in terms of teaching you that curriculum.