The Deluxe Food Lover's Companion (Deluxe Edition)

Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780764162411
ISBN: 0764162411
Item Dimensions:200920317670
Label: Barron's Educational Series
Languages:EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 794
Publication Date: September 01, 2009
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Studio: Barron's Educational Series

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Product Description:
Based on Barron's popular and authoritative The Food Lover's Companion, this enlarged and enhanced new reference volume was written for discerning home chefs and everybody else who wants to become more knowledgeable about good food and elegant dining. Alphabetically arranged entries define and describe--

Fruits and vegetables, both well-known and exotic varieties

Meat cuts and preparation methods

Fish, shellfish, and ways to cook and serve them

Breads, pastas, and other grain-based foods

Cooking tools and techniques

Reliable ways to preserve and store foods

Herbs, spices, and their many uses . . . and much more

Miniature glossaries are interspersed throughout the text. For instance, following the entry for apple, an "Apple Glossary" provides descriptions and recommended uses of 28 different varieties. A generous array of sidebar features throughout the book offers quick tips on food purchases, as well as Fast Facts and advice on preparation, serving, and dining. For example, immediately following the "al dente" entry in reference to cooking pasta, readers will find this sidebar:
Fast Facts
Al Dente

An obvious line flowing through the thickest part of the pasta means it's not done

Lingering heat will continue to cook the pasta for a short time after it's removed from the hot cooking water

More than 6,700 entries are supplemented with a general introduction, hundreds of illustrations, and pithy quotations about food and dining from chefs and gourmets. The new deluxe hardcover binding with dust jacket includes a ribbon place marker and golden-tipped page edges.

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