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De Smaakbijbel: Combinaties, Inspiraties En Recepten (2010)

by Niki Segnit(Favorite Author)

4.21 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

9057594439 (ISBN13: 9789057594434)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Podium

review 1: This book is beautifully designed - like a reference book from yesteryear - from the choose of paper stock to the colours, here the publisher has spared no expense to present you with a book that you'll want to keep. It is a reference book that provides all sorts of information about most ingredients. You will learn what to cook them with and from where and when in the world an ingredient or flavour combination could be found. It's great when you have something left in the fridge and not sure what to do with it. Thanks to the Flavour Thesauraus I'm now cooking my asparagus with mushrooms.
review 2: This book is an aesthetic joy. Not only does it deal with how different ingredients complement and contrast with each other in flavour, aroma, taste and texture,... more it does so within the confines of a beautifully produced hardback book. Not one to be read on the kindle (even if an e-book version exists), it is a book to be handled and admired, snacked on at regular intervals, although prolonged periods of reading may produce aesthetic indigestion, or drive you into the kitchen to try some bizarre flavour combination. Unlike most other contemporary food books it has no glossy pictures... they would be entirely superfluous as Segnit has such vivid descriptive powers. I so wish I had written this book myself... Not only is it about food (a favourite subject) it has a vein of science running through it, has a coherent systematic logic, but is also highly cultured, somewhat idiosyncratic, and in places very funny... What other food book would leave you chortling at 5.30am after a sleepless night? Should be compulsory reading for all foodies, and having completed one circuit of her flavour wheel I feel I must go round again, and again, and again... less

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