Six Basic Cooking Techniques: Culinary Essentials for the Home Cook - Softcover

Clair, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998979201 ISBN 13: 9780998979205

Publisher: HCNY Press, 2018

Synopsis

"Those hoping to learn fundamental skills and techniques will find this to be a terrifically helpful guide." -- Publishers Weekly.Winner of an 2019 IPPY Award for "Best Cookbook." Bursting with vibrant photographs, step-by-step photo tutorials, and delicious recipes to test out new-found skills, Six Basic Cooking Techniques focuses on the six essential skills needed to create a strong foundation so that any home cook can maximize his/her culinary potential:

• Knife Skills
• Cooking Meats to Perfection
• Making Delicious Pan Sauces
• Roasting Vegetables
• Blanching Green Vegetables
• Cooking Leafy Greens 

And after the last 15 years of teaching hands-on cooking classes (as well as having been a Food Editor at Martha Stewart Living and the Recipes Editor at The Wall Street Journal), chef-instructor Jennifer Clair knows exactly what questions burn in the minds of home cooks and answers them in the "Students Ask" pages peppered throughout the book. She covers: 

• What salt you should use for cooking: kosher, table, or sea
• How to remove the smell of garlic from your fingertips
• Why you should never mince basil or mint
• How to achieve restaurant-worthy crispy chicken skin
• How to check the internal temperature of meat
• Which vegetables should be roasted together and why
• Why blanching green vegetables is better than steaming them 

Six Basic Cooking Techniques is an intimate guide that offers home cooks confidence and leaves them with an "I can do it" attitude.

About this title

From the Author

This "cooking class in a book" was 15 years in the making. Before I opened my New York City cooking school in 2002, I spent years honing my recipe writing and culinary prose skills working as a cookbook writer (Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia) and recipe editor (Saveur, The Wall Street Journal). After years of teaching, I wanted to return to my writing roots and create a culinary teaching manual based on what I learned from interacting with home cooks for over 15 years. I set out to create a hand-held cooking class that would transcend the borders of my school, and reach people wherever they may live. This is that book, and one I hope you will enjoy as a part of your collection. Another culinary guide (loosely entitled "The Dinner Manual') is in the works, slated to follow in Fall 2019.  

About the Author

Jennifer Clair is a culinary instructor and founder Home Cooking New York, a recreational cooking school in New York City. She honed her culinary and editorial chops as a Food Editor at Martha Stewart Living and the Recipes Editor at The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of Gourmet Cooking on a Budget. She lives in the Hudson Valley, New York. 

Edition details

• Publisher: HCNY Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0998979201
• ISBN 13: 9780998979205
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 112