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The definitive guide to choosing, making, cooking and enjoying Italian pasta -- Comprehensive, full-colour identification guide contains fabulous close-up photographs of the huge array of dried and fresh pasta types and shapes, including regional varieties and unusual designer shapes. -- A step-by-step techniques section guides you through the secrets of making, cooking and serving pasta, and includes essential information on making your own pasta successfully by hand and machine, from cutting shapes and noodles to making flavoured and coloured pasta. -- Guidelines on how to cook and serve pasta, with useful tips on how to eat it, matching shapes to sauces, and which wines to choose. -- A co...
With this exceptional opus, over 100 years of unparalleled experience and expertise are put at the fingertips of every home cook using the same hands-on approach promoted in practical classes at Le Cordon Bleu's institutes. This indispensable and unique reference work teaches essential preparation and cooking skills and professional tricks-of-the-trade, with over 700 cooking techniques shown in more than 2,000 color images. Whatever the interest -- providing family-pleasing everyday fare or mastering a top chef's recipe, or even attempting to re-create a dish from a restaurant menu -- Le Cordon Bleu Complete Cooking Techniques will enable people to cook what they want with success. Its hundreds of illustrated techniques are invaluable kitchen aids, as are the many integral recipes. Cooks interested in ethnic cuisines, readers of chef inspired, ingredient-led, or occasion-oriented cookbooks, as well as devotees of simple home cooking will turn to this book again and again and wonder how they ever cooked without it. Le Cordon Bleu Complete Cooking Techniques is destined to become a classic kitchen reference.
Learn the essential skills behind exceptional results 'Marcus Wareing oozes perfection and I can't think of a better cookbook to have by the stove' Gordon Ramsay Winner of Great British Menu, Best Dessert, Marcus Wareing guides you through 80 enticing recipes, offering a chef's level of understanding, with completely step-by-step recipes so that you can achieve perfect results - every time. Every recipe has a Key to Perfection, with all the need-to-know tips and techniques that promise success, plus All-Is-Not-Lost advice to rescue you from mistakes. Inspired by his mother's home cooking, Marcus draws on his experience as Chef Patron at the Savoy Grill in London, and as a father teaching his young sons to cook food for the family. This book will give you the confidence to tackle any dish - knowing you will get perfect results every time.
320 delicious dishes from all over Italy, ingredients and techniques, and 1600 step-by-step photographs.
A general survey of the development of Italian patisserie is followed by detailed notes on equipment and ingredients. Seven scrumptious chapters cover a variety of traditional Italian pastries, and many of the recipes are highlighted with historical anecdotes and information.
Over 65 inspirational rcipes the best of contemporary Italilan cooking.
Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system—now back in print Many adoptees are required to become people that they were never meant to be. While transracial adoption tends to be considered benevolent, it often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and economic toll on those who directly experience it. Outsiders Within is a landmark publication that carefully explores this most intimate aspect of globalization through essays, fiction, poetry, and art. Moving beyond personal narrative, transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing the...
Have you ever wondered how to saute a potato? Or the best way to peel an onion, joint a chicken, or fillet a fish? Or what exactly the difference is between a roasting tin and a banking tray, or penne and macaroni? Or when you should use olive oil instead of sunflower oil? The answers to these and countless other questions that your mother knew the answer to can be found in this new kitchen bible. 21st Century Cook will help you decipher recipe instructions, find the tools and equipment you'll need and provides valuable tips and hints on how to prepare and cook all types of food. The book also contains a handy basic recipe section covering stocks, gravies, pastry and sauces as well as a reference section with conversion charts and temperature guides. It's time to shelve Mrs Beeton; this book is all you'll need to become a modern master in the kitchen.