Keys to Good Cooking - A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes by Harold McGee (New York Tmes Bestseller)

"A vital tool for anyone who loves food and cooking" Heston Blumenthal

There's no shortage of recipes available today and Keys to Good Cooking will help you make the most of them by telling you what works, and why.

Written by award-winning author Harold McGee, this book acts as a companion to your recipe books, providing answers to all your kitchen questions - How do I prevent my sauce from separating? At what point should I salt meat? What are the benefits of cooking 'en papillotte'? - and distils modern scientific understanding of cooking into quick and reliable guidance.

Easy-to-use and authoritative, Keys to Good Cooking is a guide to the techniques, ingredients and gadgets with which you turn recipes into delicious meals.

A requisite countertop companion for all home chefs, Keys to Good Cooking distils the modern scientific understanding of cooking and translates it into immediately useful information. The book provides simple statements of fact and advice, along with brief explanations that help cooks understand why, and apply that understanding to other situations. Not a cookbook, Keys to Good Cooking is, simply put, a book about how to cook well. A work of astounding scholarship and originality, this is a concise and authoritative guide designed to help home cooks navigate the ever-expanding universe of recipes and ingredients and appliances, and arrive at the promised land of a satisfying dish.


Keys to Good Cooking - February 19, 2013
Book Language: English
Pages: 311
File Type: Pdf, Epub, Mobi
File Size: 5.91 MB

ISBN-10: 0385666497
ISBN-13: 978-0385666497