The Cook's Bible - The Best of American Home Cooking (Hardcover, 1st ed)

Featuring over 400 essential recipes, reviews of kitchen equipment, and 200 step-by-step illustrations.

Whether you're a kitchen novice or a veteran home chef, Christopher Kimball has written the one cookbook you absolutely must own-an indispensable guide to the best in American home cooking.

As the founder, publisher, and editor of Cook's Illustrated magazine, Kimball has perfected a new way of writing about food: take a classic dish, meticulously test all possible variations, and then present the recipes proven best. Now, with The Cook's Bible, Kimball at last gives you a cookbook based on the same rigorous methods. From the ideal way to cook a turkey to me perfect chocolate cake, you get foolproof master recipes for hundreds of favorite dishes-and one of the best basic cookbooks ever published.

The Cook's Bible takes the mystery out of preparing a great meal. What's the ideal ratio of oil to vinegar in a vinaigrette? Kimball gives you the answer: 4 1/2 to 1. What's the secret to perfect roast chicken? A 375° oven and a 170° internal temperature for the thigh. How about the toughest kitchen challenge of all, piecrust? Kimball makes it easy with the right ingredients (including Crisco and butter) and illustrated step-by-step instructions. For these and the rest of America's best-loved dishes-vegetable soup, poached salmon, roast beef, barbecued ribs, pizza, waffles, chocolate chip cookies, and many others-Kimball has tested and retested to deliver the definitive recipes.

From recipes to techniques to equipment, here is a one-volume master class in American home cookery, a cooking school in print for beginners and experienced cooks alike.

General

Imprint:	Little, Brown
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1996
First published:	October 1996
Authors:	Christopher Kimball
Dimensions:	263 x 189 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages:	464
Edition:	1st ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-316-49371-0
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Cookery / food & drink etc > National & regional cuisine Books > Food & Drink > National & regional cuisine
LSN:	0-316-49371-6
Barcode:	9780316493710

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