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Best food lab book
1. The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
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A New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the James Beard Award for General Cooking and the IACP Cookbook of the Year Award
"The one book you must have, no matter what youre planning to cook or where your skill level falls."New York Times Book Review
Ever wondered how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-rare from edge to edge when you cut into it? How to make homemade mac 'n' cheese that is as satisfyingly gooey and velvety-smooth as the blue box stuff, but far tastier? How to roast a succulent, moist turkey (forget about brining!)and use a foolproof method that works every time?
As Serious Eats's culinary nerd-in-residence, J. Kenji Lpez-Alt has pondered all these questions and more. In The Food Lab, Kenji focuses on the science behind beloved American dishes, delving into the interactions between heat, energy, and molecules that create great food. Kenji shows that often, conventional methods dont work that well, and home cooks can achieve far better results using newbut simpletechniques. In hundreds of easy-to-make recipes with over 1,000 full-color images, you will find out how to make foolproof Hollandaise sauce in just two minutes, how to transform one simple tomato sauce into a half dozen dishes, how to make the crispiest, creamiest potato casserole ever conceived, and much more.
Over 1000 color photographs2. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat Samin NosratDescription
Now a Netflix series!New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the 2018 James Beard Award for Best General Cookbook and multiple ICAP Cookbook Awards
Named one of the Best Books of 2017 by: NPR, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Rachel Ray Every Day, San Francisco Chronicle, Vice Munchies, Elle.com, Glamour, Eater, Newsday, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Seattle Times, Tampa Bay Times, Tasting Table, Modern Farmer, Publishers Weekly, and more.
A visionary new master class in cooking that distills decades of professional experience into just four simple elements, from the woman declared Americas next great cooking teacher by Alice Waters.
In the tradition of The Joy of Cooking and How to Cook Everything comes Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, an ambitious new approach to cooking by a major new culinary voice. Chef and writer Samin Nosrat has taught everyone from professional chefs to middle school kids to author Michael Pollan to cook using her revolutionary, yet simple, philosophy. Master the use of just four elementsSalt, which enhances flavor; Fat, which delivers flavor and generates texture; Acid, which balances flavor; and Heat, which ultimately determines the texture of foodand anything you cook will be delicious. By explaining the hows and whys of good cooking, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will teach and inspire a new generation of cooks how to confidently make better decisions in the kitchen and cook delicious meals with any ingredients, anywhere, at any time.
Echoing Samins own journey from culinary novice to award-winning chef, Salt, Fat Acid, Heat immediately bridges the gap between home and professional kitchens. With charming narrative, illustrated walkthroughs, and a lighthearted approach to kitchen science, Samin demystifies the four elements of good cooking for everyone. Refer to the canon of 100 essential recipesand dozens of variationsto put the lessons into practice and make bright, balanced vinaigrettes, perfectly caramelized roast vegetables, tender braised meats, and light, flaky pastry doughs.
Featuring 150 illustrations and infographics that reveal an atlas to the world of flavor by renowned illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will be your compass in the kitchen. Destined to be a classic, it just might be the last cookbook youll ever need.
With a foreword by Michael Pollan.
3. Principles of Food Science- Lab Manual/ Workbook
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4. Food Chemistry
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For more than two decades, this work has remained the leading advanced textbook and easy-to-use reference on food chemistry and technology. Its fourth edition has been extensively re-written and enlarged, now also covering topics such as BSE detection or acrylamide. Food allergies, alcoholic drinks, or phystosterols are now treated more extensively.
Proven features of the prior editions are maintained: Contains more than 600 tables, almost 500 figures, and about 1100 structural formulae of food components - Logically organized according to food constituents and commodities - Comprehensive subject index.
These features provide students and researchers in food science, food technology, agricultural chemistry and nutrition with in-depth insight into food chemistry and technology. They also make the book a valuable on-the-job reference for chemists, food chemists, food technologists, engineers, biochemists, nutritionists, and analytical chemists in food and agricultural research, food industry, nutrition, food control, and service laboratories.
From reviews of the first edition
"Few books on food chemistry treat the subject as exhaustivelyresearchers will find it to be a useful source of information. It is easy to read and the material is systematically presented." JACS
5. The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
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Winner of the 2009 James Beard Book Award for Best Book: Reference and ScholarshipDescription
Thousands of ingredient entries, organized alphabetically and cross-referenced, provide a treasure trove of spectacular flavor combinations. Readers will learn to work more intuitively and effectively with ingredients; experiment with temperature and texture; excite the nose and palate with herbs, spices, and other seasonings; and balance the sensual, emotional, and spiritual elements of an extraordinary meal. Seasoned with tips, anecdotes, and signature dishes from America's most imaginative chefs, The Flavor Bible is an essentialreference for every kitchen.
Winner of the 2009 James Beard Book Award for Best Book: Reference and Scholarship
6. The Pioneer Woman CooksCome and Get It!: Simple, Scrumptious Recipes for Crazy Busy Lives
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
GoodReads Choice Award Semi Finalist
For home cooks, nothing beats preparing a long, leisurely dinner for your family, stirring slowly, seasoning gradually, and savoring every flavorful step.
Screeeeeech! Reality check!
Okay, let's face it: With school, sports, work, obligations, and activities pulling us in a million directions, not many of us can spend that amount of time in the kitchen anymore! What wereally need are simple, scrumptious, doable recipes that solve the challenge of serving up hearty, satisfying food (that tastes amazing!) day after day, week after week without falling into a rut and relying on the same old rotation of meals. Cooking should be fun, rewarding, and it definitely should feed your soul (and feed the people in your household in the process)!Here are some of my favorite make-it-happen dishes, pulled from my nonstop life as a busy wife, mother of four, and lifelong lover of food! The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It! includes more than 120 of my best solutions for tasty, wholesome meals (with minimal fuss!) for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. (And let's not forget the glue that holds it all together: desserts! There are some dandies in here, friends.)
With a mix of categories and flavors that will please everyone, this book has everything you need to whip up delicious, downhome recipes that you can get on the table without a lot of stress. Now that's something to get excited about!
7. Serious Eats: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Eating Delicious Food Wherever You Are
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Ed Levine and the editors of food blog SeriousEats.com bring you the first Serious Eats book, a celebration of Americas favorite foods, from pizza to barbecue, tacos to sliders, doughnuts to egg sandwiches, and much more. Serious Eats crackles with the energy and conviction that has made the website the passionate, discerning authority on all things delicious since its inception in 2006.Are you a Serious Eater?
1. Do you plan your day around what you might eat?
2. When you are heading somewhere, anywhere, will you go out of your way to eat something delicious?
3. When you daydream, do you often find yourself thinking about food?
4. Do you live to eat, rather than eat to live?
5. Have you strained relationships with friends or family by dictating the food itinerarychanging everyones plans to try a potentially special burger or piece of pie?
Ed Levine, whom Ruth Reichl calls the missionary of the delicious, and his SeriousEats.com editors present their unique take on iconic foods made and served around the country. From house-cured, hand-cut corned beef sandwiches at Jakes in Milwaukee to fried-to-order doughnuts at Shipleys Do-Nuts in Houston; from fresh clam pizza at Zuppardis Pizzeria in West Haven, Connecticut, to Green Eggs and Ham at Huckleberry Bakery and Caf in Los Angeles, Serious Eats is a veritable map of some of the best food they have eaten nationwide.
Covering fast food, family-run restaurants, food trucks, and four-star dining establishments, all with zero snobbery, there is plenty here for every food lover, from coast to coast and everywhere in between. Featuring 400 of the Serious Eats teams greatest food finds and 50 all-new recipes, this is your must-read manual for the pursuit of a tasty life.
Youll learn not only where to go for the best grub, but also how to make the food you crave right in your own kitchen, with original recipes including Neapolitan Pizza (and dough), the Ultimate Sliders (which were invented in Kansas), Caramel Sticky Buns, Southern Fried Chicken, the classic Reuben, and Triple-Chocolate Adult Brownies. Youll also hone your Serious Eater skills with tips that include signs of deliciousness, regional style guides (think pizza or barbecue), and Eds hypothesesranging from the Cuban sandwich theory to the Pizza Cognition Theoryon what makes a perfect bite.
8. Feed Zone Portables: A Cookbook of On-the-Go Food for Athletes (The Feed Zone Series)
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Author: Dr. Allen Lim, chef Biju ThomasISBN#: 978-1937715007
Publisher: Velo Press
Publication Date: 4/18/2013
Jacket: hardcover
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Feed Zone Portables offers 75 all-new, easy, healthy recipes for portable snacks that taste great during exercise.
When Dr. Allen Lim left the lab to work with pro cyclists, he found athletes weary of processed bars and gels and the same old pasta. So Lim joined professional chef Biju Thomas to make eating delicious and practical. When the menu changed, no one could argue with the race results. Their groundbreaking Feed Zone Cookbook brought the favorite recipes of the pros to everyday athletes.
In their new cookbook Feed Zone Portables, Chef Biju and Dr. Lim offer 75 all-new portable food recipes for cyclists, runners, triathletes, mountain bikers, climbers, hikers, and backpackers. Each real food recipe is simple, delicious during exercise, easy to make " and ready to go on your next ride, run, climb, hike, road trip, or sporting event.
Feed Zone Portables expands on the most popular features of The Feed Zone Cookbook with more quick and easy recipes for athletes, beautiful full-color photographs of every dish, complete nutrition data, tips on why these are the best foods for athletes, and time-saving ways on how to cook real food every day.
In his introduction to Feed Zone Portables, Dr. Lim shows why real food is a more easily digestible, higher-performance source of energy than prepackaged fuel products. He shows how much athletes really need to eat and drink at different exercise intensities and in cold or hot weather. Because the body burns solid and liquid foods differently, Lim defines a new approach for athletes to drink for hydration and eat real food for energy.
With the recipes, ideas, and guidance in Feed Zone Portables, athletes will nourish better performance with real food and learn to prepare their own creations at home or on the go. Feed Zone Portables includes
- 75 all-new recipes that taste great during exercise: Rice Cakes, Two-Bite Pies, Griddle Cakes, Waffles, Baked Eggs, Sticky Bites, Rice Balls, Ride Sandwiches, Baked Cakes, and Cookies
- A smart introduction on how real food works better for athletes
- More than 50 no-fuss gluten-free recipes, including great-tasting cookies and cakes
- More than 50 vegetarian recipes
9. The Flavor Matrix: The Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extraordinary Dishes
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A revolutionary new guide to pairing ingredients, based on a famous chef's groundbreaking research into the chemical basis of flavor
As an instructor at one of the worlds top culinary schools, James Briscione thought he knew how to mix and match ingredients. Then he met IBMWatson. Working with the supercomputer to turn big data into delicious recipes, Briscionerealized that he (like most chefs)knew next to nothing aboutwhy different foods taste good together. That epiphany launched him on a quest to understand the molecular basis of flavorand it led, in time, to The Flavor Matrix.
A groundbreaking ingredient-pairing guide,The Flavor Matrix shows how science canunlock unheard-of possibilities for combining foods into astonishingly inventive dishes. Briscione distills chemical analyses of different ingredientsinto easy-to-use infographics, andpresents mind-blowing recipes that he's created with them.The result of intensive research and incredible creativity in the kitchen, The Flavor Matrixis a must-have for home cooks and professional chefs alike:the only flavor-pairing manual anyone will ever need.
10. The Professional Chef
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"The bible for all chefs."Paul Bocuse
Named one of the five favorite culinary books of this decade byFood Arts magazine, The Professional Chef is theclassic kitchen reference that many of America's top chefs haveused to understand basic skills and standards for quality as wellas develop a sense of how cooking works. Now, the ninth editionfeatures an all-new, user-friendly design that guides readersthrough each cooking technique, starting with a basic formula,outlining the method at-a-glance, offering expert tips, coveringeach method with beautiful step-by-step photography, and finishingwith recipes that use the basic techniques.
The new edition also offers a global perspective and includesessential information on nutrition, food and kitchen safety,equipment, and product identification. Basic recipe formulasillustrate fundamental techniques and guide chefs clearly throughevery step, from mise en place to finished dishes.
- Includes an entirely new chapter on plated desserts and newcoverage of topics that range from sous vide cooking to barbecuingto seasonality
- Highlights quick reference pages for each major cookingtechnique or preparation, guiding you with at-a-glance informationanswering basic questions and giving new insights with experttips
- Features nearly 900 recipes and more than 800 gorgeousfull-color photographs
Covering the full range of modern techniques and classic andcontemporary recipes, The Professional Chef, Ninth Editionis the essential reference for every serious cook.
