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What's a Cook to Do? - An Illustrated Guide to 484 Essential Tools Tips Techniques and Tricks - cover

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What's a Cook to Do? - An Illustrated Guide to 484 Essential Tools Tips Techniques and Tricks

James Peterson

Publisher: Artisan

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Summary

From the 7-time James Beard Award-winning teacher, an invaluable reference handbook—from picking ripe produce to cooking a perfectly tender lobster. 
 
Culinary students everywhere rely on the comprehensive and authoritative cookbooks published by chef, instructor, and award-winning author Jim Peterson. And now, for the first time, this guru-to-the-professionals turns his prodigious knowledge into a practical, chockablock, quick-reference, A-to-Z answer book for the rest of us. 
 
Look elsewhere for how to bone skate or trim out a saddle of lamb, how to sauté sweetbreads or flambé dessert. Look here instead for how to zest a lemon, make the perfect hamburger, bread a chicken breast, make (truly hot) coffee in a French press, make magic with a Microplane. It’s all here: how to season a cast iron pan, bake a perfect pie, keep shells from sticking to hardcooked eggs. How to carve a turkey, roast a chicken, and chop, slice, beat, broil, braise, or boil any ingredient you’re likely to encounter. Information on seasoning, saucing, and determining doneness (by internal temperatures, timings, touch, and sight) guarantee that you’ve eaten your last bland and overcooked meal. 
 
Here are 500 invaluable techniques with nearly as many color photographs, bundled into a handy, accessible format.
Available since: 04/19/2007.
Print length: 433 pages.

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