The Confident Cook: Basic Recipes and How to Build on Them - Couverture rigide

Chalmers, Irena

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1250146275 ISBN 13 : 9781250146274

Editeur : St Martin's Press, 2018

Synopsis

With a new foreword by Anne Willan. Anyone who can understand the reasoning behind basic cooking techniques can become a creative, relaxed, and confident cook. Chalmers takes the would-be chef through how the addition or substitution of a few ingredients can transform a simple dish into a culinary masterpiece. The Confident Cook, invaluable to experienced cooks as well as to beginners, demonstrates that in fact there are only four or five basic methods of cooking food. Once mastered, these basic methods can be used with many different ingredients to create countless dishes. Chalmers shows how beef stew, braised veal, coq au vin, and a vegetable casserole, for example, are similar in their preparation; how a simple beef stew can become a hearty Mulligan, a Belgian carbonnade, a French boeuf bourguingnon, or your own less classic invention. More important, she shows how you can whip up something delectable from whatever supplies you have available without being tied to a recipe with specified ingredients. About two hundred recipes are given with logical and practical directions, and some seventy-five original line drawings clearly illustrate each technique and some of the finished dishes. But the heart of this book is the information that makes it possible to dispense altogether with recipes and to start experimenting - confidently and successfully - with your own creative cooking ideas.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Irena Chalmers established her own cooking school in Greensboro, North Carolina after studying at the Cordon Bleu School of Cooking in Paris. She has appeared on numerous television programs and has given lectures and cooking demonstrations around the country. Chalmers has written more than eighty specialty cookbooks that are sold both here and abroad.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St Martin's Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250146275
• ISBN 13: 9781250146274
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible