Baking Boot Camp: Five Days of Basic Training at The Culinary Institute of America - Hardcover

The Culinary Institute Of America; Darra Goldstein

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0764572792 ISBN 13: 9780764572791

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007

Synopsis

The Culinary Institute of America's tremendously popular Boot Camp courses help food and baking enthusiasts take their skills to a whole new level, offering hands-on, intensive instruction with some of the world's most talented chef-instructors.

In Baking Boot Camp, Julia Child Award-winning cookbook author Darra Goldstein takes you along as she embarks on two demanding Boot Camp courses, Baking and Pastry, where the fatigues are chef's whites and the weapons of choice are whisks, piping bags, and a bench scraper. Goldstein chronicles progress through each day of each course, bringing to life the intensity, the rigor, and the camaraderie that set Boot Camps apart from other cooking classes. Along the way, she reveals the tips and tricks of baking and pastry pros, sharing their fascinating insights with us on everything from the importance of weighing all ingredients to the secrets of perfect puff pastry. Throughout the book, more than 100 photographs by award-winning photographer Ben Fink vividly capture the excitement of the program.

Learn alongside Goldstein and her fellow students as they watch demonstrations, practice new skills, and receive critiques from their exacting instructors. You'll discover the hands-on skills and secrets you need to perfect your cookies, pies, cakes, and breads, as you build the know-how and confidence to tackle more demanding creations such as profiteroles, eclairs, mousses, and souffles. To help you put these lessons to work in your own kitchen, the book includes nearly eighty delicious Boot Camp recipes - everything you need to start using professional techniques and embark on a lifetime of baking success.

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From the Back Cover

Experience the intensity of Baking and Pastry Boot Camps at the "most influential training school for professional cooks"
(Time magazine)

BAKING BOOT CAMP

"In 'mealy' doughs, fat coats the flour, thereby preventing much gluten from forming; in effect, the fat shortens the protein strands by restricting their development. Suddenly a light went off in my head: so that's why it's called shortening!"

PASTRY BOOT CAMP

"Today was the day I'd been waiting for, ourlesson in puff pastry! Perhaps more than any otherkind of dough, puff pastry distinguishes thechefs from the recruits. Tender, flaky, lightas a wisp – if I could make dough like that, I'd be thrilled."

Day by day, lesson by lesson, Darra Goldstein takes you along as she works her way through two tough Boot Camp courses.

About the Author

DARRA GOLDSTEIN is the editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, as well as Food Editor at Russian Life magazine. She is the author of several Russian cookbooks, including the 1993 Julia Child Award–winning The Georgian Feast, and in 1997, she received the Sophie Coe Subsidiary Prize in Food History. Goldstein is a Professor of Russian at Williams College in Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0764572792
• ISBN 13: 9780764572791
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288