Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes
- ISBN-10
- 0449015998
- ISBN-13
- 9780449015995
- Series
- Keys to Good Cooking
- Category
- Cooking
- Pages
- 576
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-02-19
- Publisher
- Appetite by Random House
- Author
- Harold McGee
Description
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.
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