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The Deluxe Food Lover's Companion

出版	B.E.S. Publishing, 2009
主題	Cooking / GeneralCooking / Reference
ISBN	07641624119780764162411
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=j1W7wAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Based on Barron's popular and authoritative The Food Lover's Companion, this enlarged and enhanced new reference volume was written for discerning home chefs and everybody else who wants to become more knowledgeable about good food and elegant dining. Alphabetically arranged entries define and describe--

Fruits and vegetables, both well-known and exotic varieties
Meat cuts and preparation methods
Fish, shellfish, and ways to cook and serve them
Breads, pastas, and other grain-based foods
Cooking tools and techniques
Reliable ways to preserve and store foods
Herbs, spices, and their many uses . . . and much more

Miniature glossaries are interspersed throughout the text. For instance, following the entry for apple, an "Apple Glossary" provides descriptions and recommended uses of 28 different varieties. A generous array of sidebar features throughout the book offers quick tips on food purchases, as well as Fast Facts and advice on preparation, serving, and dining. For example, immediately following the "al dente" entry in reference to cooking pasta, readers will find this sidebar:
Fast Facts
Al Dente
An obvious line flowing through the thickest part of the pasta means it's not done
Lingering heat will continue to cook the pasta for a short time after it's removed from the hot cooking water

More than 6,700 entries are supplemented with a general introduction, hundreds of illustrations, and pithy quotations about food and dining from chefs and gourmets. The new deluxe hardcover binding with dust jacket includes a ribbon place marker and golden-tipped page edges.