a reading recommendation

[johnnytruant]

McGee on Food and Cooking

Everything you ever wanted to know about food and the science thereof.

When I try to cook something and it fails, I turn to McGee to find out why. When I cook something and it's good, I turn to McGee to find out how to make it better.

"Never before has so much information been made so approachable. For anyone remotely interested in food Harold McGee’s brilliant reworking of his original masterpiece must go down as one of the greatest cookery books ever written" - Heston Blumenthal

 

[duderdo]

I agree, a very important book.

Once you know a bit of the science behind what you're doing in the kitchen, you're less likely to make mistakes, and more likely to make positive changes.

 

[xtalicious]

Your post reminds me that I have yet to pick this book up. As a biochemist and avid home cook, I think I'd love to nerd out on the food + science topic.

Thanks. I'm off to Amazon.

 

[Kouros]

I turn to Alton Brown on Good Eats.

 

[SiBurning]

I looked through the section on egg foams trying to find ways to improve my lather. Cool book.