How to Cook Meat - Softcover

Schlesinger, Christopher; Willoughby, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060507713 ISBN 13: 9780060507718

Publisher: MorrowCB, 2002

Synopsis

How to Cook Meat offers recipes and techniques for anyone who wants to savor the flavor of meat.

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Review:

Want to learn about meat? Really learn? Then How to Cook Meat is your book. In great and enjoyable detail it explores beef, veal, lamb, and pork--which cuts to buy, what cooking methods suit each, how to judge doneness, and much, much more. Authors Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby, responsible for the bestselling Thrill of the Grill, also provide more than 200 explicit recipes that comprise a wide range of dishes, from prime-rib roasts to hearty stews, lamb-shoulder braises to grilled pork fillets--and they even cover innards and specialty cuts such as ham hocks. It's hard to imagine a meat lover who wouldn't benefit from this comprehensive yet approachable investigation.

Staring with illuminating notes on butchering and meat grading, the supermarket versus butcher meat-buying issue, and other related matters, the book then provides ample notes on cooking techniques. Recipes for the major meat types follow, organized usefully by cut size and tenderness; these treat the most melting cuts, which can stand quick cooking, to the tougher (though often more flavorful) ones that demand braising or stewing. Particularly attractive recipes include Sage-Rubbed Roasted Loin of Beef with Shallot-Bourbon Sauce; Veal, Sausage, and Fava Bean Stew with Lemony Greens; and Traditional Dry-Rubbed Saint Louis-Style Pork Spareribs. With additional recipes for the likes of hash browns and rice, beans, and vegetable sides, plus useful tips, nomenclature, and substitution notes, the book is a real addition to the kitchen library, though it won't remain shelved for long. --Arthur Boehm

About the Author:

Chris Schlesinger is the chef/owner of the award winning East Coast Grill in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Back in Eddy in Westport, Massachusetts, and the 1996 winner of the James Beard Award for the Best Chef in the Northeast.

John Willoughby is the senior editor of Cook's Illustrated, a regular contributor to most major food magazines, and a graduate-level-writing instructor at the Radcliffe Seminars at Harvard University. With Chris Schlesinger, he is coauthor of five other cookbooks, including License to Grill and the award winning Thrill of the Grill. For the past six years they have been writing monthly features for the New York Times Dining section.

About this edition

• Publisher: MorrowCB
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060507713
• ISBN 13: 9780060507718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464