Keys to Good Cooking Paperback by Harold McGee

Product Details

• Publisher: Appetite by Random House (2013-02-19)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 576 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780385666497
• Item Weight: 997.92 grams
• Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.79 x 1.25 cm

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.

About the Author

HAROLD MCGEE writes about the science of food and cooking. He's the author of the award-winning classic On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, and writes a column, "The Curious Cook," for The New York Times. He has been named food writer of the year by Bon Appétit magazine and one of the Time 100, an annual list of the world's most influential people. He lives in San Francisco.