Download or read book What Good Cooks Know written by America's Test Kitchen (Firm) and published by America's Test Kitchen. This book was released on 2016 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From foolproof techniques, including the best way to get a good sear on a steak and how to butterfly a chicken, to hundreds of invaluable product reviews, this one-stop reference has all the authority of the test kitchen's extensive tasting, testing, and recipe development protocols behind it. You'll also get tutorials on basic cooking skills and useful cooking science, 85 essential recipes (50 master recipes and 35 variations), and an extensive section of appendices packed with even more information."--
Download or read book The Cook s Handbook written by Prue Leith and published by Book Sales. This book was released on 1981 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides illustrated instructions for basic and advanced culinary skills, offers advice on planning a kitchen and choosing and caring for utensils, and explains how to prepare, cook, serve, and preserve all kinds of food
Download or read book The Cook s Kitchen Bible written by Norma MacMillan and published by Smithmark Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "how-to" volume for absolute beginner cooks covers basic techniques without assuming prior knowledge, including preparing fish, making gravy, peeling potatoes, mincing garlic, cooking rice, and melting chocolate.
Download or read book Handbook of Computational Quantum Chemistry written by David B. Cook and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive text provides upper-level undergraduates and graduate students with an accessible introduction to the implementation of quantum ideas in molecular modeling, exploring practical applications alongside theoretical explanations. Topics include the Hartree-Fock method; matrix SCF equations; implementation of the closed-shell case; introduction to molecular integrals; and much more. 1998 edition.
Download or read book How to Taste written by Becky Selengut and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and approachable (and humorous!) guide to taste and flavor will make you a more skilled and confident home cook How to Taste outlines the underlying principles of taste, and then takes a deep dive into salt, acid, bitter, sweet, fat, umami, bite (heat), aromatics, and texture. You'll find out how temperature impacts your enjoyment of the dishes you make as does color, alcohol, and more. The handbook goes beyond telling home cooks what ingredients go well together or explaining cooking ratios. You'll learn how to adjust a dish that's too salty or too acidic and how to determine when something might be lacking. It also includes recipes and simple kitchen experiments that illustrate the importance of salt in a dish, or identifies whether you're a "supertaster" or not. Each recipe and experiment highlights the chapter's main lesson. How to Taste will ultimately help you feel confident about why and how various components of a dish are used to create balance, harmony, and deliciousness.
Download or read book What s a Cook to Do written by James Peterson and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From America’s favorite cooking teacher, multiple award-winner James Peterson, an invaluable reference handbook. Culinary students everywhere rely on the comprehensive and authoritative cookbooks published by chef, instructor, and award-winning author Jim Peterson. And now, for the first time, this guru-to-the-professionals turns his prodigious knowledge into a practical, chockablock, quick-reference, A-to-Z answer book for the rest of us. Look elsewhere for how to bone skate or trim out a saddle of lamb, how to sauté sweetbreads or flambé dessert. Look here instead for how to zest a lemon, make the perfect hamburger, bread a chicken breast, make (truly hot) coffee in a French press, make magic with a Microplane. It’s all here: how to season a castiron pan, bake a perfect pie, keep shells from sticking to hardcooked eggs. How to carve a turkey, roast a chicken, and chop, slice, beat, broil, braise, or boil any ingredient you’re likely to encounter. Information on seasoning, saucing, and determining doneness (by internal temperatures, timings, touch, and sight) guarantee that you’ve eaten your last bland and overcooked meal. Here are 500 invaluable techniques with nearly as many color photographs, bundled into a handy, accessible format.
Download or read book Cook This Book written by Molly Baz and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A thoroughly modern guide to becoming a better, faster, more creative cook, featuring fun, flavorful recipes anyone can make. ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, Food52, Taste of Home “Surprising no one, Molly has written a book as smart, stylish, and entertaining as she is.”—Carla Lalli Music, author of Where Cooking Begins If you seek out, celebrate, and obsess over good food but lack the skills and confidence necessary to make it at home, you’ve just won a ticket to a life filled with supreme deliciousness. Cook This Book is a new kind of foundational cookbook from Molly Baz, who’s here to teach you absolutely everything she knows and equip you with the tools to become a better, more efficient cook. Molly breaks the essentials of cooking down to clear and uncomplicated recipes that deliver big flavor with little effort and a side of education, including dishes like Pastrami Roast Chicken with Schmaltzy Onions and Dill, Chorizo and Chickpea Carbonara, and of course, her signature Cae Sal. But this is not your average cookbook. More than a collection of recipes, Cook This Book teaches you the invaluable superpower of improvisation though visually compelling lessons on such topics as the importance of salt and how to balance flavor, giving you all the tools necessary to make food taste great every time. Throughout, you’ll encounter dozens of QR codes, accessed through the camera app on your smartphone, that link to short technique-driven videos hosted by Molly to help illuminate some of the trickier skills. As Molly says, “Cooking is really fun, I swear. You simply need to set yourself up for success to truly enjoy it.” Cook This Book will help you do just that, inspiring a new generation to find joy in the kitchen and take pride in putting a home-cooked meal on the table, all with the unbridled fun and spirit that only Molly could inspire.
Download or read book Waste Free Kitchen Handbook written by Dana Gunders and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “slim but indispensable new guide” offers “practical tips and delicious recipes that will help reduce kitchen waste and save money” (The Washington Post). Despite a growing awareness of food waste, many well-intentioned home cooks lack the tools to change their habits. This handbook—packed with engaging checklists, simple recipes, practical strategies, and educational infographics—is the ultimate tool for using more and wasting less in your kitchen. From a scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council come these everyday techniques that call for minimal adjustments of habit, from shopping, portioning, and using a refrigerator properly to simple preservation methods including freezing, pickling, and cellaring. At once a good read and a go-to reference, this handy guide is chock-full of helpful facts and tips, including twenty “use-it-up” recipes and a substantial directory of common foods.
Download or read book Process Improvement written by Sarah Cook and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a costumer-focused approach to improving organizational performance, which can be applied to specific areas or functions, or to organizations as a whole. Explains the techniques for each of four stages: identifying the needs, assessment and analysis, designing processes, and implementation. C
Download or read book The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France written by Sean Takats and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth-century French household, the servant cook held a special place of importance, providing daily meals and managing the kitchen and its finances. In this scrupulously researched and witty history, Sean Takats examines the lives of these cooks as they sought to improve their position in society and reinvent themselves as expert, skilled professionals. Much has been written about the cuisine of the period, but Takats takes readers down into the kitchen and introduces them to the men and women behind the food. It is only in that way, Takats argues, that we can fully recover the scientific and cultural significance of the meals they created, and, more important, the contributions of ordinary workers to eighteenth-century intellectual life. He shows how cooks, along with decorators, architects, and fashion merchants, drove France’s consumer revolution, and how cooks' knowledge about a healthy diet and the medicinal properties of food advanced their professional status by capitalizing on the Enlightenment’s new concern for bodily and material happiness. The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France explores a unique intersection of cultural history, labor history, and the history of science and medicine. Relying on an unprecedented range of sources, from printed cookbooks and medical texts to building plans and commercial advertisements, Takats reconstructs the evolving role of the cook in Enlightenment France. Academics and students alike will enjoy this fascinating study of the invention of the professional chef, of how ordinary workers influenced emerging trends of scientific knowledge, culture-creation, and taste in eighteenth-century France.
Download or read book The Cook written by Maylis de Kerangal and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of BBC Culture's Ten Books to Read this March and The Rumpus Book Club Pick for March Maylis de Kerangal follows up her acclaimed novel The Heart with a dissection of the world of a young Parisian chef More like a poetic biographical essay on a fictional person than a novel, The Cook is a coming-of-age journey centered on Mauro, a young self-taught cook. The story is told by an unnamed female narrator, Mauro’s friend and disciple who we also suspect might be in love with him. Set not only in Paris but in Berlin, Thailand, Burma, and other far-flung places over the course of fifteen years, the book is hyperrealistic—to the point of feeling, at times, like a documentary. It transcends this simplistic form, however, through the lyricism and intensely vivid evocative nature of Maylis de Kerangal’s prose, which conjures moods, sensations, and flavors, as well as the exhausting rigor and sometimes violent abuses of kitchen work. In The Cook, we follow Mauro as he finds his path in life: baking cakes as a child; cooking for his friends as a teenager; a series of studies, jobs, and travels; a failed love affair; a successful business; a virtual nervous breakdown; and—at the end—a rediscovery of his hunger for cooking, his appetite for life.
Download or read book Cook s Book of Essential Information written by Barbara Hill and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1990-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This kitchen reference book is packed with all kinds of information that has never been compiled in one book before.”—Chicago Tribune Everything you really need to know about buying, cooking, and storing food is here in one easy-to-use volume. Packed with essential information for both the experienced and the beginning cook, this is a kitchen encyclopedia to keep handy when you need fast, accurate answers to your food questions. A complete compendium of: • Common Cookbook Terms & Abbreviations • Ingredient Substitutions • Temperatures and Cooking Times for Dozens of Foods • Finest Kitchen Equipment • Storage Life for Frozen, Refrigerated, and Shelf Foods • Food Additives—the Safe and the Unsafe • Nutritional Guidelines . . . and More! Answers to the food questions you really ask: How many graham crackers are needed for one pie shell? Can I substitute cocoa for chocolate squares in a recipe? Which buy on eggs is best—medium, large, or extra-large? How long will a jar of mayo keep in the refrigerator? What’s the cooking time for lobster?
Download or read book The Prep and Cook Handbook written by Gerard A. Coleman and published by . This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Prep and Cook Handbook: Mastering the Basics" is your essential culinary companion, meticulously crafted to guide aspiring chefs and home cooks through the fundamental techniques that form the cornerstone of exceptional cooking. This cookbook is more than just a collection of recipes; it is a comprehensive manual that empowers readers to gain confidence in the kitchen by mastering the essential skills of preparation and cooking. Key Features: Foundational Techniques: Dive into the world of culinary mastery as this handbook systematically breaks down the essential techniques required for successful cooking. From knife skills and mise en place to mastering various cooking methods, each page is a step toward becoming a confident and skilled home chef. Step-by-Step Guidance: With a focus on clarity and simplicity, the cookbook provides detailed, step-by-step instructions accompanied by visuals that demystify the cooking process. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced cook, this handbook ensures that every stage of preparation and cooking is easily understandable and replicable. Versatile Recipes: Beyond teaching the basics, the cookbook features a curated selection of versatile recipes that allow readers to apply their newfound skills. From simple and satisfying meals to more complex dishes, each recipe is designed to reinforce the techniques learned, providing a delicious incentive for culinary exploration. Ingredient Insights: Learn to appreciate the importance of quality ingredients and how to select, store, and prepare them effectively. The cookbook offers insights into ingredient pairing and substitution, enabling cooks to adapt recipes to suit their preferences and dietary needs. Time-Saving Tips: Recognizing the demands of modern life, "The Prep and Cook Handbook" incorporates time-saving tips and tricks without compromising on flavor. Discover efficient ways to prep, cook, and clean up, making the cooking process a seamless and enjoyable part of your daily routine. Culinary Confidence: The ultimate goal of this handbook is to instill culinary confidence. By mastering the basics, readers will feel empowered to explore their creativity in the kitchen, experiment with flavors, and, ultimately, create meals that reflect their personal style and taste. Beautifully Illustrated: Visual learners will appreciate the cookbook's attention to detail, with vibrant and enticing images that showcase the artistry of each dish. These visuals not only serve as inspiration but also provide a visual guide for achieving professional-looking results. "The Prep and Cook Handbook: Mastering the Basics" is more than just a cookbook; it's a culinary education in the comfort of your kitchen. Whether you're just starting your cooking journey or seeking to refine your skills, this handbook equips you with the knowledge and expertise to tackle any recipe with confidence, turning each meal into a satisfying and delicious masterpiece.
Download or read book The Recipe Writer s Handbook written by Barbara Gibbs Ostmann and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2001-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for The Recipe Writer's Handbook Revised and Expanded "Barbara Ostmann and Jane Baker are experienced food editors who know their stuff. To achieve success, a recipe must be written with impeccable accuracy and unambiguous clarity. The Recipe Writer's Handbook achieves both objectives in full measure."-Irena Chalmers, author and professional food writing lecturer at The Culinary Institute of America "The First Edition of The Recipe Writer's Handbook was a terrific resource, and this revised edition is downright indispensable. It is full of answers to questions about recipe style and substance. Ostmann and Baker have cooked up a delicious addition to any serious food writer's desk."-Mitchell Davis, Director of Publications, The James Beard Foundation "Writing recipes is a tricky business, and anyone who wants to do so successfully should have this book. The tables, glossaries, and charts alone are worth the price, not to mention the authors' generous helpings of good, sound advice."-John Willoughby, coauthor, Thrill of the Grill and How to Cook Meat "The Recipe Writer's Handbook is indispensable in the range and depth of information it offers both the novice and seasoned culinary writer. It contains everything you need to know-all beautifully organized and presented in a handy, easy-to-use format. Ostmann and Baker are masters of their trade!"-Paula Lambert, President of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, founder of the Mozzarella Company, and author of The Cheese Lover's Cookbook and Guide First Edition Nominated for Best Food Book, 1999 World Media Food Awards
Download or read book Complete Book of Indian Cooking written by Suneeta Vaswani and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within this volume are 350 user-friendly recipes from all over India, a country whose diverse cultures and religions are reflected in its cuisine. The recipes include background information and are designed to educate cooks in order to make them more comfortable with Indian food.
Download or read book The Cook s Book of Essential Information written by Barbara Hill and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At last -- in one book -- all the information every cook needs : tables of measurements, equivalents, and substitutions ; meal planning and shopping ; what you should eat every day to stay healthy ; choosing and caring for kitchen equipment ; how long to cook and how to store just about everything ; all about food additives."--
Download or read book The Clever Cook s Kitchen Handbook written by David Joachim and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 5,000 brilliant tips on buying, storing and preparing food; boosting flavor; cooking healthfully; saving time; rescuing failed recipes; and much more.
