Kitchen Essentials: The Complete Illustrated Reference to the Ingredients, Equipment, Terms, and Techniques Used by Le Cordon Bleu
Author: Carroll Brown
A concise, colorful resource for both the novice cook and experienced chef
This comprehensive, highly illustrated book is chock-full of enlightening and eye-opening culinary information, covering a vast range of topics that teach readers what they need to know to be successful in the kitchen—from cooking techniques and equipment to essential ingredients. Le Cordon Bleu Kitchen Essentials offers expert guidance on everything from choosing pots and pans to deboning poultry to storing ingredients—as well as logical solutions to common mistakes. The easy-to-follow text, clearly defined terms, and uncommonly helpful tips make this reference a must-have for all modern kitchens. It demonstrates techniques with 1,100 step-by-step color photographs. Plus, the book outlines the vast range of equipment, along with buying tips and cleaning and care information. Le Cordon Bleu Kitchen Essentials illustrates the cleaning and preparation of food, as well as cooking times and features classic recipes to teach the principal uses of each ingredient.
Le Cordon Bleu provides expert training in cuisine, pastry, and baking. Through its six schools, a student body of over fifty nationalities, and a distinguished team of thirty international Master Chefs, Le Cordon Bleu is dedicated to preserving and passing on the mastery and appreciation of the culinary arts.
Internet Book Watch
Kitchen Essentials is a compendium of culinary instruction and creations from the famed French cooking school with detailed information on ingredients, equipment, terms, and techniques utilized by their instructor chefs. Wonderfully illustrated throughout with full-color photography, Kitchen Essentials is a superbly presented, very highly recommended, single volume course for elegant cooking that covers fish and shellfish, meats, poultry and game, dairy products, bean and grains, vegetables (including seaweed and sea vegetables), fruits and nuts, and flavorings (including pantry extras, sweeteners, chocolate, coffee and teas).
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Food Festivals of Italy: Celebrated Recipes from 50 Food Fairs
Author: Leonardo Curti
Each year Italy's beautiful countryside is spattered with numerous food festivals that showcase various delectable foods such as garlic, pasta, lentils, fruits, nuts, chocolates and more. Now Italian Food Festivals highlights 50 of Italy's most diverse food fairs, bringing a taste of authentic Italy into your home with 100 recipes that use the featured festival foods.
Judith Sutton - Library Journal
Curti, the chef/owner of Trattoria Grappolo in Santa Ynez, CA, and Fraioli, a food and travel writer, previously collaborated on Trattoria Grappola. This lavishly illustrated new title showcases 50 Italian food fairs, from "Le Marche's Artichoke Festival" to "Campania's Watermelon Festival." The festivals are grouped into four categories-antipasti, primi, secondi, and dolce-and there are two recipes for each. Linking the festivals with regions rather than with individual towns known for their food fairs gives them a somewhat generic feel, and more specific travel information would have been helpful. Carol Field's Celebrating Italy, a far more ambitious book on the topic, includes a 50-page "Traveler's Calendar," along with culinary history and dozens of recipes, but Curti and Fraioli's attractive book should appeal to armchair travelers and home cooks.
Table of Contents:
11 Introduction
22 PART ONE: Antipasti
24 Artichoke Festival
26 Balsamic Vinegar Festival
30 Chile Pepper Festival
38 Couscous Fest
40 Focaccia Festival
44 Garlic Festival
46 Goat Cheese Festival
50 Grape Festival
54 Mozzarella Festival
62 National White Truffle Fair
70 Parmesan Cheese Festival
76 Prosciutto Festival
80 Salami Festival
88 Snail Festival
92 Traditional Chestnut Hunt
94 PART TWO: Primi
96 Bean Fest
102 Gnocchetti Festival
106 Herb Festival
110 Lentil Festival
114 Macaroni Festival
118 Mushroom Festival
122 Omelet Festival
124 Onion Fair
128 Pasta Festival
138 Pizza Fest
148 Polenta Festival
150 Pumpkin Festival
154 PART THREE: Secondi
156 Asparagus Festival
160 Bean Festival
162 Beef Festival
168 Dried Cod Festival
170 Fish Festival
180 Frog Festival
182 Rabbit Festival
184 Radicchio Festival
188 Sausage Festival
192 Seafood Festival
202 Swordfish Festival
206 Tuna Festival
210 PART FOUR: Dolce
212 Apple Festival
214 Cherry Festival
218 Chocolate Festival
224 Dessert Festival
228 Lemon Festival
232 Pistachio Festival
234 Prickly Pear Festival
238 Strawberry Festival
242 Strudel, Muscat Wine, and
Vin Santo Wine Festival
244 Watermelon Festival
248 Acknowledgments
248 Photo Credits
249 Index
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