In Grocery, bestselling author Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America’s relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it—the grocery store. In a culture obsessed with food—how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what is good for us—there are often more questions than answers. Ruhlman proposes that …
The Sous Vide Kitchen: Techniques, Ideas, and More Than 100 Recipes to Cook at Home
Discover the best way to cook everything: sous vide!Once only found professional kitchens–with machines costing thousands of dollars–sous vide has been reimagined. Over the past five years, some creative companies have pioneered tools that look somewhat like large immersion blenders and cost less than $200.With sous vide, food is sealed inside a plastic bag and submerged in hot …
This redesigned, repackaged, and updated edition of Street Food surveys common street foods from more than 75 countries and regions across the globe.An estimated 2.6 billion people worldwide eat street food every day. Once associated with developing countries, street food has spread around the globe, particularly in the United States, where a variety of food trucks, top chefs, …
Japanese Knives and Sharpening Techniques (Japanese-English Bilingual Books)
Recently traditional Japanese kitchen knives are gaining as high recognition and attention as the Japanese food itself.This book covers everything on knives, from Japanese and Chinese to western, from their styles, features, basic knowledge of knives to sharpening stones and techniques in a single volume. Written in both English and Japanese, this book will appeal to those who …
How to Care for Japanese Kitchen Utensils (Japanese-English Bilingual Books)
There are so many types of kitchen tools and utensils such as wooden cutting board, iron pan, aluminum pot, carbon steel knife and stainless steel kitchen shears. However, almost all people don’t take care of them correctly and ruin them easily.The author puts it in this book: “Taking care of tools” is sometimes understood to mean “keep them …
Acclaimed food stylist Denise Vivaldo shares the tips and secrets of the trade with cooks who want to become master stylists. It takes a steady hand to arrange the chocolate curls and drizzle the caramel sauce in elaborate designs on top of that sumptuous tiered cake. Whether for food blogs, television, books, magazines, movies, menus, or advertising, food …
The Art of Flavor: Practices and Principles for Creating Delicious Food
Two masters of composition – a chef and a perfumer – present a revolutionary new approach to creating delicious, original foodIn a world awash in cooking shows, food blogs, and recipes, the art of flavor has been surprisingly neglected. The multibillion-dollar flavor industry practices its dark arts by manipulating synthetic ingredients, and home cooks are taught to wield …
From the Source – Mexico: Authentic Recipes From the People That Know Them the Best (Lonely Planet)
Lonely Planet presents Mexico’s most authentic dishes – direct from the kitchens where they were perfected. From street-food vendors to Michelin-starred chefs, Mexico’s best local cooks share their passion for food and 60 of their region’s classic recipes – from steaming sopa de lima and rich and velvety mole to zesty, spicy salsas. Recipes include: Sopa …
Lonely Planet presents France’s most authentic dishes – direct from the kitchens where they were perfected. From street-food vendors to Michelin-starred chefs, France’s best local cooks share their passion for food and their region’s classic recipes – from impossibly light cheese souffles and herby, rustic coq au vin to delectable macarons. Recipes include: Escargots …
The all-in-one cooking bible for a new generation with 300 recipes for everything from simple vinaigrettes and roast chicken to birthday cake and cocktails. For Alex Guarnaschelli—whose mother edited the seminal 1997 edition of The Joy of Cooking, which defined the food of the late twentieth century—a life in food and cookbooks was almost predestined. Now an …