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Notes On Cooking: A Short Guide To An Essential Craft (2009)

by Lauren Braun Costello(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0972425519 (ISBN13: 9780972425513)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

RCR Creative Press

review 1: First of all, I really need my own copy of this book. It is full of invaluable tips, many of which I was taught in Food Prep 1...and then promptly forgot. I don't get to do a lot of cooking at home, since I have been surrounded by very picky eaters. This has recently changed, so I am going to be cooking more often. I believe this book should be in every kitchen, from the rawest beginner to the most seasoned of chefs. It is extremely well organized, with sections on everything from Understanding the Recipe to Presentation. One of the best parts is an appendix that suggests food pairings that one might not expect. I'm sure everyone would recognize that lemon and poppy seeds go together, but what about poppy seeds and radishes? One of the tips in the section "Temperat... moreure" would have saved my fingers a few days ago. My son was helping me in the kitchen. He pulled a pan out of the oven for me and set it on the counter. The tip? 92. Flag hot things. Because yes, a few minutes later, I went to turn the handle away from the edge so it wouldn't get knocked over. It wasn't cool yet and I burned my fingers. After running my hand under cold water, I put a towel over the handle so that nobody else would burn themselves - and turned the handle in, away from the floor.
review 2: I saw chef and restauranteur Costello on the Rachael Ray show and immediately wanted to check out her book. I thoroughly enjoyed her very practical cooking advice. This book will prove helpful to anyone who wants to become a better cook, even though it doesn't contain a single recipe. Her goal is to make her audience "think like a chef" by sharing information she learned in professional schools and textbooks. These gems of wisdom (a total of 217 concise notes) cover such topics as how to pick your ingredients, how to keep your knives sharp, and ripen fruit. This information will be helpful to novice and experienced cooks alike. And I will be putting this title in my "gift ideas" file. Christmas, perhaps? less

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