Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes

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Excellent product. Well packed, good quality. I bought used. The inside was impeccable, the outside was a bit dirty, but very minimally. Very happy with my purchase.

Don't hesitate to buy this book if you like Harold McGee, or cooking science generally. Whatever unhappy reviews you see here have completely mistaken the nature of the project. This is a pellucid distillation of McGee's knowledge about cooking, where every word is made to tell. It's something few writers could ever have managed. The section on vinaigrettes explains several more aspects of how they work, why you make them as you do, and how they might be injured and repaired than J. Kenji López-Alt's equivalent section of The Food Lab does, in a tenth as many words.So it's not rambling, discursive, anecdotal, or overlong, and the prose soars only a little, here and there, mainly at the chapter starts. But read with attention, it casts a delicious spell of clarity, and regularly achieves the goal of all true explanations: to make the familiar, strange. McGee has packed this beautifully designed book with thousands of little insights and pieces of advice that will make you cook better. It's a delight.My only dissatisfaction with the hardcover is that I wish the dust jacket had been reproduced on the surface of the book itself, and that the surface was glossy, to make it feel more like the kitchen-based book it is than a standard nonfiction offering (and that it had a sewn, not a glued, binding, as so many cookbooks do, for durability). But none of Penguin Press's books have those features, and as regular hardcover books go, it is very pleasingly printed, with thick, luxurious paper.

I am a retired professional chef/restaurant manage, and I found some interesting and useful information. My daughter who is studying GCSE Food Tech found it very useful.

Ottimo ed istruttivo. Aiuta ad accrescere il modo approcciare la preparazione dei cibi in cucina. Anche divertente per certi versi