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Ideas In Food: Great Recipes And Why They Work (2010)

by Aki Kamozawa(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0307717402 (ISBN13: 9780307717405)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Clarkson Potter

review 1: Aki and Alex have turned their immensely successful blog, catering business, and teaching experience into a book for ambitious professional and home cooks. The recipes and the techniques they illustrate are fascinating, novel ways of bringing together flavors and textures, and their excitement at these techniques came through well. However, large sections of the prose were extremely poorly/hastily written, with jarringly bad paragraph construction and narrative flow. Whether the book was unedited or merely underedited, it seriously could have used another hand to make it enjoyable to read as a book qua book. As a cooking reference for people interested in modern techniques, however, it is unmatched for the price.
review 2: This is another highly scientific cook... morebook, similar to "Ratio" by Michael Ruhlman. While it is unlikely that i will use many of the example recipes in the book, the detailed descriptions of the chemical processes taking place during different kinds of cooking were interesting. I do plan to use the book as a reference when going out on a limb with a new recipe. It was a fairly quick read and should be interesting for most technically-minded amateur cooks. less

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