What's a Cook to Do?: An Illustrated Guide to 484 Essential Tips, Techniques, and Tricks (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781579653187)

From America's favorite cooking teacher, multiple award-winner James Peterson, an invaluable reference handbook.

Culinary students everywhere rely on the comprehensive and authoritative cookbooks published by chef, instructor, and award-winning author Jim Peterson. And now, for the first time, this guru-to-the-professionals turns his prodigious knowledge into a practical, chockablock, quick-reference, A-to-Z answer book for the rest of us.

Look elsewhere for how to bone skate or trim out a saddle of lamb, how to saut sweetbreads or flamb dessert. Look here instead for how to zest a lemon, make the perfect hamburger, bread a chicken breast, make (truly hot) coffee in a French press, make magic with a Microplane. It's all here: how to season a castiron pan, bake a perfect pie, keep shells from sticking to hardcooked eggs. How to carve a turkey, roast a chicken, and chop, slice, beat, broil, braise, or boil any ingredient you're likely to encounter. Information on seasoning, saucing, and determining doneness (by internal temperatures, timings, touch, and sight) guarantee that you've eaten your last bland and overcooked meal.

Here are 500 invaluable techniques with nearly as many color photographs, bundled into a handy, accessible format.

Author: James Peterson
ISBN-10: 1579653189
ISBN-13: 9781579653187
Publisher: Artisan Publishers
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2007
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.00w x 2.05d