Kitchen Answer Book: 5,000 Answers to All of Your Kitchen and Cooking Questions (Capital Ideas)

The Kitchen Answer Book is the only reference book you will ever need in the kitchen. Master fundamental kitchen techniques, learn cooking vocabulary, discover shortcuts, and pick up the know-how and wisdom that make cooking a pleasure rather than a dreaded chore. In concise, direct answers to more than 5,000 cooking and kitchen questions arranged in easy-to-find categories, The Kitchen Answer Book is the ideal, quick reference to cope with kitchen emergencies. Questions and answers are arranged in broad categories: Baking, Caffeine, Dairy, Eggs, Fowl, Fruits and Nuts, Grains, Beans, and Pasta, Meat, Seafood, Seasoning, Stocks, Soups and Sauces, Utensils, and Vegetables

Hank Rubin has several decades of experience as a food technologist, executive chef, restaurant owner, cooking teacher, and food and wine writer. He has written over 500 wine and food articles and more than 1000 columns. His wine column in the San Francisco Chronicle from 1965 to 1982 was the first weekly column in the U.S. He is the author of Spain’s Cause Was Mines (Southern Illinois University Press, 1997). Mr. Rubin lives in San Francisco, California.