Rare is the cookbook that redefines how we cook. And rare is the author who can do so with the ease and expertise of acclaimed writer and culinary authority Michael Ruhlman.'Twenty' distills Ruhlman's decades of cooking, writing, and working with the world's greatest chefs into twenty essential ideas from ingredients to processes to attitude that are guaranteed to make every cook more accomplished. Whether cooking a multi-course meal, the juiciest roast chicken, or just some really good scrambled eggs, Ruhlman reveals how a cook's success boils down to the same twenty concepts. With the illuminating expertise that has made him one of the most esteemed food journalists, Ruhlman explains the hows and whys of each concept and reinforces those discoveries through 100 recipes for everything from soups to desserts, all detailed in over 300 photographs. Cooks of all levels will revel in Ruhlman's game-changing'Twenty' .
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"I'm not sure if Michael Ruhlman is a great writer who cooks or a great cook who writes, but either way he always manages to make my favorite thing: good sense. With Ruhlman's Twenty he makes sense of just about anything and everything that can happen in a kitchen by boiling it all down to twenty elemental concepts, stunningly presented in concise and useful clarity."
-Alton Brown, host of Good Eats and author of I'm Just Here for the Food
-Alton Brown, host of Good Eats and author of I'm Just Here for the Food
About the Author
Michael Ruhlman is the author of'Ratio, The Soul of a Chef, The Making of a Chef, Charcuterie' , and, with, Thomas Keller,'The French Laundry Cookbook' . He lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.<br><br><br/> Photographer Donna Turner Ruhlman lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
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By claudeandre
Format:Hardcover
If you are a cookbook addict, think you have too many cookbooks and are planning to pledge not to buy another cookbook as a New Year resolution... buy this one in a hurry before your resolution kicks in!
This is a very well written book. It illustrates basic techniques through recipes, highlights the logic behind them and their applicability in your day-to-day cooking.
Sounds boring or too basic? Think again. How many times do we cook without "thinking" just doing automatic gestures out of habit. How often do you start a recipe realizing in the middle that that you are missing a crucial ingredient? This book will help you to slow down, get organized, pause and think, reconsider some of your habits and build up your skills and knowledge.
Overall, a well worth investment for anyone who loves cooking and wish to become better at it.
This is a very well written book. It illustrates basic techniques through recipes, highlights the logic behind them and their applicability in your day-to-day cooking.
Sounds boring or too basic? Think again. How many times do we cook without "thinking" just doing automatic gestures out of habit. How often do you start a recipe realizing in the middle that that you are missing a crucial ingredient? This book will help you to slow down, get organized, pause and think, reconsider some of your habits and build up your skills and knowledge.
Overall, a well worth investment for anyone who loves cooking and wish to become better at it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Stone
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This is a great book to teach the fundamentals
These are must knows if you want to cook food to it's full potential
not one chapter is a throw away
If you were to buy one book to learn how to cook or to refresh and re vitalize your cooking
make it this book
It was very easy to read and used straight forward language
two thumbs up
These are must knows if you want to cook food to it's full potential
not one chapter is a throw away
If you were to buy one book to learn how to cook or to refresh and re vitalize your cooking
make it this book
It was very easy to read and used straight forward language
two thumbs up
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I count Michael Ruhlman among the most talented writers on the cookbook scene; his elegant prose provokes thought and informs even the most experienced chef. In his 2010 hit "Ratio," Ruhlman explored the relationships between ingredients and, in his newest "Twenty," he again eschews recipes in favour of culinary education. Each of his 20 chapters explains the fundamentals of either an essential technique (roasting etc) or ingredient (salt, eggs, acid) and provides recipes that employ the chapter's theme.
Ruhlman's structure makes finding recipes difficult but the book's elements tie together so seamlessly that it seems impossible to organize them another way. The pork belly, for example, combines the braising chapter (responsible for the meat's tenderness) with the sugar chapter (responsible for the meat's flavour). With ample step-by-step photographs, a wide variety of culinary topics and uncomplicated but enlightening text, "Twenty" provides a refreshing perspective on the cookbook genre.
Ruhlman's structure makes finding recipes difficult but the book's elements tie together so seamlessly that it seems impossible to organize them another way. The pork belly, for example, combines the braising chapter (responsible for the meat's tenderness) with the sugar chapter (responsible for the meat's flavour). With ample step-by-step photographs, a wide variety of culinary topics and uncomplicated but enlightening text, "Twenty" provides a refreshing perspective on the cookbook genre.
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Bought this on the recommendation of my daughter, who is a chef. It's great, and I've made several of the recipes, and used several of the techniques already. Love it.
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