Author: Sarah Bowen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190663324
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Food is at the center of national debates about how Americans live and the future of the planet. Not everyone agrees about how to reform our relationship to food, but one suggestion rises above the din: We need to get back in the kitchen. Amid concerns about rising rates of obesity and diabetes, unpronounceable ingredients, and the environmental footprint of industrial agriculture, food reformers implore parents to slow down, cook from scratch, and gather around the dinner table. Making food a priority, they argue, will lead to happier and healthier families. But is it really that simple? In this riveting and beautifully-written book, Sarah Bowen, Joslyn Brenton, and Sinikka Elliott take us into the kitchens of nine women to tell the complicated story of what it takes to feed a family today. All of these mothers love their children and want them to eat well. But their kitchens are not equal. From cockroach infestations and stretched budgets to picky eaters and conflicting nutrition advice, Pressure Cooker exposes how modern families struggle to confront high expectations and deep-seated inequalities around getting food on the table. Based on extensive interviews and field research in the homes and kitchens of a diverse group of American families, Pressure Cooker challenges the logic of the most popular foodie mantras of our time, showing how they miss the mark and up the ante for parents and children. Romantic images of family meals are inviting, but they create a fiction that does little to fix the problems with the food system. The unforgettable stories in this book evocatively illustrate how class inequality, racism, sexism, and xenophobia converge at the dinner table. If we want a food system that is fair, equitable, and nourishing, we must look outside the kitchen for answers.
Pressure Cooker
Author: Sarah Bowen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190663324
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Food is at the center of national debates about how Americans live and the future of the planet. Not everyone agrees about how to reform our relationship to food, but one suggestion rises above the din: We need to get back in the kitchen. Amid concerns about rising rates of obesity and diabetes, unpronounceable ingredients, and the environmental footprint of industrial agriculture, food reformers implore parents to slow down, cook from scratch, and gather around the dinner table. Making food a priority, they argue, will lead to happier and healthier families. But is it really that simple? In this riveting and beautifully-written book, Sarah Bowen, Joslyn Brenton, and Sinikka Elliott take us into the kitchens of nine women to tell the complicated story of what it takes to feed a family today. All of these mothers love their children and want them to eat well. But their kitchens are not equal. From cockroach infestations and stretched budgets to picky eaters and conflicting nutrition advice, Pressure Cooker exposes how modern families struggle to confront high expectations and deep-seated inequalities around getting food on the table. Based on extensive interviews and field research in the homes and kitchens of a diverse group of American families, Pressure Cooker challenges the logic of the most popular foodie mantras of our time, showing how they miss the mark and up the ante for parents and children. Romantic images of family meals are inviting, but they create a fiction that does little to fix the problems with the food system. The unforgettable stories in this book evocatively illustrate how class inequality, racism, sexism, and xenophobia converge at the dinner table. If we want a food system that is fair, equitable, and nourishing, we must look outside the kitchen for answers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190663324
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Food is at the center of national debates about how Americans live and the future of the planet. Not everyone agrees about how to reform our relationship to food, but one suggestion rises above the din: We need to get back in the kitchen. Amid concerns about rising rates of obesity and diabetes, unpronounceable ingredients, and the environmental footprint of industrial agriculture, food reformers implore parents to slow down, cook from scratch, and gather around the dinner table. Making food a priority, they argue, will lead to happier and healthier families. But is it really that simple? In this riveting and beautifully-written book, Sarah Bowen, Joslyn Brenton, and Sinikka Elliott take us into the kitchens of nine women to tell the complicated story of what it takes to feed a family today. All of these mothers love their children and want them to eat well. But their kitchens are not equal. From cockroach infestations and stretched budgets to picky eaters and conflicting nutrition advice, Pressure Cooker exposes how modern families struggle to confront high expectations and deep-seated inequalities around getting food on the table. Based on extensive interviews and field research in the homes and kitchens of a diverse group of American families, Pressure Cooker challenges the logic of the most popular foodie mantras of our time, showing how they miss the mark and up the ante for parents and children. Romantic images of family meals are inviting, but they create a fiction that does little to fix the problems with the food system. The unforgettable stories in this book evocatively illustrate how class inequality, racism, sexism, and xenophobia converge at the dinner table. If we want a food system that is fair, equitable, and nourishing, we must look outside the kitchen for answers.
The Pressure Cooker Recipe Book
Author: Suzanne Gibbs
Publisher: Penguin Global
ISBN: 9780670073184
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Consummate home cook and magazine editor Suzanne Gibbs shows us how to use a pressure cooker to create slow-cooked flavour in a fast-paced world. Pressure cookers allow us to cook quickly, cheaply and efficiently. The food is cooked in liquid at high temperatures, which shortens cooking time by up to 70 per cent. Because the method seals in flavour and nutrition, cheaper ingredients can be used to great effect. Here Suzanne selects more than 80 of her favourite pressure-cooker recipes, and describes the process from beginning to end. Learn how to cook an osso bucco in 25 minutes, a chicken tagine in 15 minutes and a delicious bread and butter pudding in 20 minutes. Packed with information on practicalities, such as choosing, using and cleaning your cooker, and fully illustrated with beautiful photography. The Pressure Cooker Recipe Book is a must-have guide for anyone balancing the constraints of time and money with a desire to create delicious healthy meals for themselves, their friends and their families.
Publisher: Penguin Global
ISBN: 9780670073184
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Consummate home cook and magazine editor Suzanne Gibbs shows us how to use a pressure cooker to create slow-cooked flavour in a fast-paced world. Pressure cookers allow us to cook quickly, cheaply and efficiently. The food is cooked in liquid at high temperatures, which shortens cooking time by up to 70 per cent. Because the method seals in flavour and nutrition, cheaper ingredients can be used to great effect. Here Suzanne selects more than 80 of her favourite pressure-cooker recipes, and describes the process from beginning to end. Learn how to cook an osso bucco in 25 minutes, a chicken tagine in 15 minutes and a delicious bread and butter pudding in 20 minutes. Packed with information on practicalities, such as choosing, using and cleaning your cooker, and fully illustrated with beautiful photography. The Pressure Cooker Recipe Book is a must-have guide for anyone balancing the constraints of time and money with a desire to create delicious healthy meals for themselves, their friends and their families.
The New Fast Food
Author: Jill Nussinow
Publisher: Veggie Queen
ISBN: 9780976708513
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Pressure Cooker Can Change Your Life Discover how you can make delicious meals in minutes using just one pot. Let Jill, The Veggie Queen(TM), show you how easy and safe it is to make flavorful, healthy plant-based meals with vegetables, grains, beans and other legumes and fruit. With a pressure cooker, you can save time and money, lock in flavor and nutrition, decrease your energy costs and avoid a messy kitchen with only one pot to clean! Jill will show you how you can cut cooking time in half (or more!) compared to conventional stove top cooking. In The New Fast Food(TM), you'll learn how to choose and use a pressure cooker, with timing charts for your favorite plant foods. You'll also find more than 100 recipes for everything from breakfast to dessert. Most of the recipes are gluten-free and all are vegan. The New Fast Food(TM) offers fast, colorful and tasty dishes such as: Orange Glazed Broccoli with Carrots and Kale Mashed Maple Winter Squash with Cinnamon Lemony Lentil and Potato Chowder Smoky Sweet Potato and Black Bean Chili Coconut Almond Risotto
Publisher: Veggie Queen
ISBN: 9780976708513
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Pressure Cooker Can Change Your Life Discover how you can make delicious meals in minutes using just one pot. Let Jill, The Veggie Queen(TM), show you how easy and safe it is to make flavorful, healthy plant-based meals with vegetables, grains, beans and other legumes and fruit. With a pressure cooker, you can save time and money, lock in flavor and nutrition, decrease your energy costs and avoid a messy kitchen with only one pot to clean! Jill will show you how you can cut cooking time in half (or more!) compared to conventional stove top cooking. In The New Fast Food(TM), you'll learn how to choose and use a pressure cooker, with timing charts for your favorite plant foods. You'll also find more than 100 recipes for everything from breakfast to dessert. Most of the recipes are gluten-free and all are vegan. The New Fast Food(TM) offers fast, colorful and tasty dishes such as: Orange Glazed Broccoli with Carrots and Kale Mashed Maple Winter Squash with Cinnamon Lemony Lentil and Potato Chowder Smoky Sweet Potato and Black Bean Chili Coconut Almond Risotto
Martha Stewart's Pressure Cooker
Author: Editors of Martha Stewart Living
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 1524763357
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
An essential guide for your beloved, time-saving pressure cooker divided into three parts: a beginner-friendly section of pressure-cooked building blocks like beans, stocks, grains, and vegetables that can be assembled into simple dishes, such as salads, soups, quesadillas, burgers, and more; a chapter of 40+ hearty main courses made start to finish in the pot; and a final chapter of desserts cooked entirely in the appliance. Recipes include instructions for both types of pressure cookers (stovetop and electric), including the cult favorite Instant Pot®. The kitchens of Martha Stewart present an authoritative volume packed with brilliant, effortless recipes that yield maximum flavor and require minimal time. Every recipe is rigorously tested, beautifully photographed, and will work for any type of pressure cooker. If you're new to pressure cooking, this book makes the experience foolproof and fearless. Perfect for beginners, the book begins with staples that traditionally require long cooking times, such as whole grains, dried beans, and stocks, that are finished much more quickly in the pressure cooker. In this first chapter, you'll find the master cooking techniques for these affordable, accessible ingredients -- the results become building blocks for many creative recipes and meal prep, ready to be transformed into countless, easy meals that will serve you throughout the week. The rest of the book is full of one-pot recipes -- dishes that once seemed like long weekend affairs or were too labor intensive to muster on a weeknight are now ready in a flash: braised short ribs that fall off the bone after only an hour; rich pork and pinto bean chili made with dried beans, no pre-soaking required; and a creamy, perfectly cooked risotto ready in six minutes, without constant stirring. Demonstrating the incredible versatility of the appliance, Martha Stewart's Pressure Cooker has a sweet ending -- a chapter devoted solely to desserts, such as cakes, puddings, and more.
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 1524763357
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
An essential guide for your beloved, time-saving pressure cooker divided into three parts: a beginner-friendly section of pressure-cooked building blocks like beans, stocks, grains, and vegetables that can be assembled into simple dishes, such as salads, soups, quesadillas, burgers, and more; a chapter of 40+ hearty main courses made start to finish in the pot; and a final chapter of desserts cooked entirely in the appliance. Recipes include instructions for both types of pressure cookers (stovetop and electric), including the cult favorite Instant Pot®. The kitchens of Martha Stewart present an authoritative volume packed with brilliant, effortless recipes that yield maximum flavor and require minimal time. Every recipe is rigorously tested, beautifully photographed, and will work for any type of pressure cooker. If you're new to pressure cooking, this book makes the experience foolproof and fearless. Perfect for beginners, the book begins with staples that traditionally require long cooking times, such as whole grains, dried beans, and stocks, that are finished much more quickly in the pressure cooker. In this first chapter, you'll find the master cooking techniques for these affordable, accessible ingredients -- the results become building blocks for many creative recipes and meal prep, ready to be transformed into countless, easy meals that will serve you throughout the week. The rest of the book is full of one-pot recipes -- dishes that once seemed like long weekend affairs or were too labor intensive to muster on a weeknight are now ready in a flash: braised short ribs that fall off the bone after only an hour; rich pork and pinto bean chili made with dried beans, no pre-soaking required; and a creamy, perfectly cooked risotto ready in six minutes, without constant stirring. Demonstrating the incredible versatility of the appliance, Martha Stewart's Pressure Cooker has a sweet ending -- a chapter devoted solely to desserts, such as cakes, puddings, and more.
Pressure Cooker Perfection
Author: America's Test Kitchen
Publisher: America's Test Kitchen
ISBN: 1936493659
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
100 foolproof pressure-cooker recipes that will change the way you cook. In Pressure Cooker Perfection, the first volume in our new test kitchen handbook series, the editors at America's Test Kitchen demystify an appliance that to many home cooks remains intimidating -- but shouldn't. Modern pressure cookers are safer, quieter, more reliable, and more user-friendly than old-fashioned jiggle-top models. And they can prepare a wide range of foods -- everything from barbecue to risotto -- in record time. Cooking under pressure results in better-tasting dishes because every drop of flavor is trapped in the sealed pot. This fact, combined with the shorter cooking time, means that your dishes will be supercharged with flavor. And cooking under pressure is versatile. While they're ideal for roasts and stews, pressure cookers can also turn out perfectly tender beans, grains, and legumes in short order. If ever there was a cooking method that could benefit from the obsessive trial and error that our test kitchen is known for, this is it. When cooking time is compressed, every minute matters, and when flavors are amplified, even a small change becomes significant. We ran hundreds of tests in fifteen pressure cookers to find out what works and what doesn't, and we deliver the foolproof, guaranteed-successful recipes in Pressure Cooker Perfection. With this foolproof guide to cooking under pressure, every home cook will be guaranteed success.
Publisher: America's Test Kitchen
ISBN: 1936493659
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
100 foolproof pressure-cooker recipes that will change the way you cook. In Pressure Cooker Perfection, the first volume in our new test kitchen handbook series, the editors at America's Test Kitchen demystify an appliance that to many home cooks remains intimidating -- but shouldn't. Modern pressure cookers are safer, quieter, more reliable, and more user-friendly than old-fashioned jiggle-top models. And they can prepare a wide range of foods -- everything from barbecue to risotto -- in record time. Cooking under pressure results in better-tasting dishes because every drop of flavor is trapped in the sealed pot. This fact, combined with the shorter cooking time, means that your dishes will be supercharged with flavor. And cooking under pressure is versatile. While they're ideal for roasts and stews, pressure cookers can also turn out perfectly tender beans, grains, and legumes in short order. If ever there was a cooking method that could benefit from the obsessive trial and error that our test kitchen is known for, this is it. When cooking time is compressed, every minute matters, and when flavors are amplified, even a small change becomes significant. We ran hundreds of tests in fifteen pressure cookers to find out what works and what doesn't, and we deliver the foolproof, guaranteed-successful recipes in Pressure Cooker Perfection. With this foolproof guide to cooking under pressure, every home cook will be guaranteed success.
Best Instant Pot Cookbook
Author: Gooseberry Patch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 162093339X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Short on time? With an Instant Pot(R), you can cook up all your family's favorite meals in a fraction of the time. Pressure-Cooker Country Chicken Soup, BBQ Spareribs even down-home Bacon-Braised Mixed Greens taste like they cooked all day. And, how about Lemon Bread Pudding for dessert? Got more time? Go low & slow with a slow cooker. Treat your family to slow-simmered dishes like fork-tender Italian Pot Roast, tummy-warming Grandma's Famous Chili and Hot Fudge Spoon Cake. Includes instructions and recipes to scale for cooking for 1 or 2 and for converting slow-cooker recipes to the pressure cooker. Also will include Salads & Desserts to go-with meals entrees prepared in the Instant Pot. Additional recipes for salads and even more desserts to go with what you prepare in your Instant Pot (R)! We're sharing lots of useful tips for making the most of these handy kitchen appliances. So put 'em to work, cooking up wonderful meals for your family. 175 Recipes.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 162093339X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Short on time? With an Instant Pot(R), you can cook up all your family's favorite meals in a fraction of the time. Pressure-Cooker Country Chicken Soup, BBQ Spareribs even down-home Bacon-Braised Mixed Greens taste like they cooked all day. And, how about Lemon Bread Pudding for dessert? Got more time? Go low & slow with a slow cooker. Treat your family to slow-simmered dishes like fork-tender Italian Pot Roast, tummy-warming Grandma's Famous Chili and Hot Fudge Spoon Cake. Includes instructions and recipes to scale for cooking for 1 or 2 and for converting slow-cooker recipes to the pressure cooker. Also will include Salads & Desserts to go-with meals entrees prepared in the Instant Pot. Additional recipes for salads and even more desserts to go with what you prepare in your Instant Pot (R)! We're sharing lots of useful tips for making the most of these handy kitchen appliances. So put 'em to work, cooking up wonderful meals for your family. 175 Recipes.
Pressure Perfect
Author: Lorna J. Sass
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062314238
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Under pressure to get a tasty, nutritious dinner on the table in a flash? Like the idea of preparing fork-tender beef stew in thirty minutes and pot roast in under an hour? All this and more is made possible by the pressure cooker, a magical appliance that produces soul-satisfying, homemade food in one-third (or less) the standard cooking time. In Pressure Perfect, Lorna Sass, the country's leading authority on pressure cooking, distills her two decades of experience into one comprehensive volume. First learn everything you need to know about buying and using today's 100% safe cookers. Then enjoy more than 200 recipes for preparing soups, meats, poultry, grains, beans, vegetables, and desserts in record time. How about whipping up a savory risotto in 4 minutes, chicken cacciatore in 12 minutes, or a delectable chocolate cheesecake in 25 minutes? Because the pressure cooker tenderizes tough cuts of meat quickly, you can prepare fall-off-the-bone beef short ribs or lamb shanks on weekday nights instead of waiting for a special occasion. The pressure cooker also allows you to make delectable one-pot meals in minutes. Among the many innovative recipes and techniques, you'll learn to cook meatloaf and potatoes simultaneously in 10 minutes, and meatballs, pasta, and sauce at the same time in only 5 minutes. Many recipes also suggest Cook-Along ideas for preparing vegetables and grains along with the entre. To further help those cooking under pressure (and who isn't nowadays?), each chapter contains timing charts for quick reference. Tips and Pressure Points in every recipe ensure optimum results. This ultimate guide to pressure cooking is a must for all busy cooks, boaters, brides, college students, and anyone looking for a great way to make irresistible, healthy, home-made food fast.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062314238
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Under pressure to get a tasty, nutritious dinner on the table in a flash? Like the idea of preparing fork-tender beef stew in thirty minutes and pot roast in under an hour? All this and more is made possible by the pressure cooker, a magical appliance that produces soul-satisfying, homemade food in one-third (or less) the standard cooking time. In Pressure Perfect, Lorna Sass, the country's leading authority on pressure cooking, distills her two decades of experience into one comprehensive volume. First learn everything you need to know about buying and using today's 100% safe cookers. Then enjoy more than 200 recipes for preparing soups, meats, poultry, grains, beans, vegetables, and desserts in record time. How about whipping up a savory risotto in 4 minutes, chicken cacciatore in 12 minutes, or a delectable chocolate cheesecake in 25 minutes? Because the pressure cooker tenderizes tough cuts of meat quickly, you can prepare fall-off-the-bone beef short ribs or lamb shanks on weekday nights instead of waiting for a special occasion. The pressure cooker also allows you to make delectable one-pot meals in minutes. Among the many innovative recipes and techniques, you'll learn to cook meatloaf and potatoes simultaneously in 10 minutes, and meatballs, pasta, and sauce at the same time in only 5 minutes. Many recipes also suggest Cook-Along ideas for preparing vegetables and grains along with the entre. To further help those cooking under pressure (and who isn't nowadays?), each chapter contains timing charts for quick reference. Tips and Pressure Points in every recipe ensure optimum results. This ultimate guide to pressure cooking is a must for all busy cooks, boaters, brides, college students, and anyone looking for a great way to make irresistible, healthy, home-made food fast.
The Great Big Pressure Cooker Book
Author: Bruce Weinstein
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 0804185336
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The ultimate in pressure cooker books--with 500 recipes for breakfasts, soups, mains, grains, vegetables, and desserts--each adapted for stovetop or electric models, such as Instapot. The old-fashioned pressure cooker has been rediscovered by modern home cooks, both for its quick-cooking powers (dried beans are perfectly soft in 35 minutes; risottos are tender in 20 minutes) and for its ability to infuse foods with intense flavor (carrots become sweeter, meat more savory). The Great Big Pressure Cooker Book has recipes for every device, stovetop and electric, no matter the manufacturer. Whether you're seeking an adventurous array of spices, found in dishes such as Cherry Chipotle Pulled Chicken or Smashed Sweet Potatoes with Pineapple and Ginger, or pure comfort food, like French Toast Bread Pudding or Classic Pot Roast and Potatoes, you'll find the perfect recipe--each labeled by level of ease--to feed your family. This is the only pressure cooker book you'll ever need.
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 0804185336
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The ultimate in pressure cooker books--with 500 recipes for breakfasts, soups, mains, grains, vegetables, and desserts--each adapted for stovetop or electric models, such as Instapot. The old-fashioned pressure cooker has been rediscovered by modern home cooks, both for its quick-cooking powers (dried beans are perfectly soft in 35 minutes; risottos are tender in 20 minutes) and for its ability to infuse foods with intense flavor (carrots become sweeter, meat more savory). The Great Big Pressure Cooker Book has recipes for every device, stovetop and electric, no matter the manufacturer. Whether you're seeking an adventurous array of spices, found in dishes such as Cherry Chipotle Pulled Chicken or Smashed Sweet Potatoes with Pineapple and Ginger, or pure comfort food, like French Toast Bread Pudding or Classic Pot Roast and Potatoes, you'll find the perfect recipe--each labeled by level of ease--to feed your family. This is the only pressure cooker book you'll ever need.
The Easy Pressure Cooker Cookbook
Author: Diane Phillips
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0811872564
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The Best Pressure Cooker Cookbook Ever takes the idea of slow cooking and makes it fast, safely. The book offers more than 400 easy-to-make recipes for the pressure cooker, from hearty main dishes to vegetable sides, fruits, and desserts. It covers all the basics, including information on finding the right pressure cooker, how to use it safely, and how to modify your favourite recipes to work with the method.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0811872564
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The Best Pressure Cooker Cookbook Ever takes the idea of slow cooking and makes it fast, safely. The book offers more than 400 easy-to-make recipes for the pressure cooker, from hearty main dishes to vegetable sides, fruits, and desserts. It covers all the basics, including information on finding the right pressure cooker, how to use it safely, and how to modify your favourite recipes to work with the method.
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
Author: J. Kenji López-Alt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393249867
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 1645
Book Description
A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the James Beard Award for General Cooking and the IACP Cookbook of the Year Award "The one book you must have, no matter what you’re planning to cook or where your skill level falls."—New York Times Book Review Ever wondered how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-rare from edge to edge when you cut into it? How to make homemade mac 'n' cheese that is as satisfyingly gooey and velvety-smooth as the blue box stuff, but far tastier? How to roast a succulent, moist turkey (forget about brining!)—and use a foolproof method that works every time? As Serious Eats's culinary nerd-in-residence, J. Kenji López-Alt has pondered all these questions and more. In The Food Lab, Kenji focuses on the science behind beloved American dishes, delving into the interactions between heat, energy, and molecules that create great food. Kenji shows that often, conventional methods don’t work that well, and home cooks can achieve far better results using new—but simple—techniques. In hundreds of easy-to-make recipes with over 1,000 full-color images, you will find out how to make foolproof Hollandaise sauce in just two minutes, how to transform one simple tomato sauce into a half dozen dishes, how to make the crispiest, creamiest potato casserole ever conceived, and much more.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393249867
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 1645
Book Description
A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the James Beard Award for General Cooking and the IACP Cookbook of the Year Award "The one book you must have, no matter what you’re planning to cook or where your skill level falls."—New York Times Book Review Ever wondered how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-rare from edge to edge when you cut into it? How to make homemade mac 'n' cheese that is as satisfyingly gooey and velvety-smooth as the blue box stuff, but far tastier? How to roast a succulent, moist turkey (forget about brining!)—and use a foolproof method that works every time? As Serious Eats's culinary nerd-in-residence, J. Kenji López-Alt has pondered all these questions and more. In The Food Lab, Kenji focuses on the science behind beloved American dishes, delving into the interactions between heat, energy, and molecules that create great food. Kenji shows that often, conventional methods don’t work that well, and home cooks can achieve far better results using new—but simple—techniques. In hundreds of easy-to-make recipes with over 1,000 full-color images, you will find out how to make foolproof Hollandaise sauce in just two minutes, how to transform one simple tomato sauce into a half dozen dishes, how to make the crispiest, creamiest potato casserole ever conceived, and much more.