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In The Green Kitchen: Techniques To Learn By Heart (2010)

by Alice Waters(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0307336808 (ISBN13: 9780307336804)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Clarkson Potter

review 1: A mother of the sustainable food movement, Walters offers a brief and very readable how-to for creating a green kitchen and cooking from it. You'll find inspiration from her "Green Kitchen Manifesto" which includes things such as "cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives" and "setting the table and eating together teaches essential values to our children." The author insists, and I agree, that you need only a basic list of ingredients, a few good techniques, and handful of well-made equipment to enjoy cooking and eating the food you create. She enlists the help of several great chefs to walk the reader through a number of techniques, each accompanied by a few recipes. This book will be quite basic to the experienced cook, but will provide critic... moreal knowledge in an easy-to-read format for beginners. And experienced in the kitchen though I may be, I still found good reminders and encouragement in these pages.
review 2: I really enjoyed this book. The layout is beautiful. You feel like you learn about the authors, but it isn't an overly long bio (boring you to death), the pictures are artistic and enjoyment all by themselves. The recipes are delicious and incredibly to the point and simple. No excessive strangeness here in order to break out of some imagined culinary mold. Instead you find straightforward recipes that sometimes have interesting choices, but not shocking. They are not gaudy but fine in their choices, reminding us that simple is classy and delectable. I use the word simple not to imply that they are without surprise or interesting choices, but to mean that they aren't trying to reinvent the wheel, or trying to make so many steps it's impossible for a novice cook to follow. Also, I really liked their two page spreads of ingredients pictures. Lovely! Perfect! This would be an excellent book for anyone to own and reference regularly. Thank you Alice Waters! less

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