Starting With Ingredients: The Quintessential Recipes for the Way We Really Cook
Each chapter focuses on a single ingredient. The accompanying recipes in Chef Aliza Green's culinary tour de force demonstrate the broad range of possibilities for each ingredient, utilizing a variety of cooking methods, flavors, and ethnic inspirations.
This innovative work is the product of Green's ceaseless culinary curiosity and in-depth knowledge of ingredients. With these tools, she has created hundreds of clear and imaginative recipes that will enable experienced and fledgling home chefs to recognize how foods should look and behave, their fragrance and feel, their seasonal changes, how they are transformed by different cooking methods, and their flavor affinities. Extensive sidebars satisfy the most curious epicure.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 29, 2008 Type: User Review |
Amazing!
This is one of the most thorough food encyclopedia's I have ever come across. This is a must have for anyone serious about food.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 07, 2008 Type: User Review |
Great book, poorly bound
This is a very good book, if you like encyclopedic type books about food and cooking. My review has more to do with the way the book is bound than with the actual contents. I will be the first to admit that I know nothing about the process of...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 07, 2008 Type: User Review |
Needs a lot more substance for the size
This book is HUGE, too big for comfortable reading - and no pictures. It attempts to cover everything, but it's impossible in one book, so you end up with an overview but no real depth on many of the subjects, and quite uneven coverage....
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| From: Amazon Posted: Dec 09, 2007 Type: User Review |
Most interesting cook book in my kitchen
This is a must have for anybody who enjoys cooking, history, and trivia. This book is organized by ingredient and includes a short essay on the history of each one. Who knew that orange carrots were developed to honor Dutch royalty?! The recipes...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 24, 2007 Type: User Review |
Biggest cookbook I've ever seen!
While I'm certainly no gourmet, and very few of the recipes would be feasible for me to try, it's a lot of fun to read. It goes into detail about histories of various foods as well as how they're raised, grown, slaughtered, used, etc. in various...
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