The Art of Flavor: Practices and Principles for Creating Delicious Food
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (538 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N5EUHGX |
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| Number of Pages | : | 173 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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She and her work have been featured in the New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Food and Wine, O, and Elle, on CNN, and on countless blogs.. His awards include Food & Wine's Best New Chef and a James Beard Award for Best Chef of the West.Mandy Aftel is an internationally kno
Two masters of composition - a chef and a perfumer - present a revolutionary new approach to creating delicious food. Michelin two-star chef Daniel Patterson and celebrated natural perfumer Mandy Aftel are experts at orchestrating ingredients. Yet in a world awash in cooking shows and food blogs, they noticed, home cooks get little guidance in the art of flavor. In this trailblazing guide, they share the secrets to making the most of your ingredients via an indispensable set of tools and principles: · The Four Rules for creating flavor · A Flavor Compass that points the way to transformative combinations · “Locking,” “burying,” and other aspects of cooking alchemy · The flavor-heightening effects of cooking methods · The Seven Dials that let you fine-tune a dish With more than eighty recipes that demonstrate each concept and put it into practice, The Art of Flavor is food for t
They make the case that this is the surest way for cooks at any level to develop their discernment and creativity. I admire their collaboration in this homage to the senses, as well as their practical approach to cooking with both freedom and restraint." – Alice Waters "I learned a lot about my own cooking habits in The Art of Flavor. A welcome complement to the likes of Brillat-Savarin and Harold McGee and worthy of a place in any cooking enthusiast's library." –Kirkus Reviews“In this wonderful book, Patterson and Aftel demonstrate that cooking well is a personal, exciting process, a flow of choices that starts with an intimate engagement with the ingredients themselves. "Friendly and accessibleCooks at every level of experience are likely to find fresh clarity and new insights." -Shelf Awareness“Patterson and Aftel offer a complexly articulated but original approach to understanding how to coo