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lightreadsSalt, Fat, Acid, Heat
4/5. A book about food, and how to become better at cooking and tasting it. I'm about three years into learning to cook, I regularly modify recipes on the fly with relatively dependable success, and this was pretty much exactly the right time to read this book. Two years ago it would have been too intimidating. Mind you, I snorted at a lot of her directives, as they are incompatible with, say, a regular habit of sixty-hour work weeks. I am just going to use the lemon juice in the glass bottle instead of reaming a lemon every time, no matter how horrified she is, and I'm cool with that. I can't speak to the included recipes, not having tried any yet, but several looked promising. Also, I read the audio, but bought the hardcover for my FiL last Christmas, and it is a really beautiful book.
4/5. A book about food, and how to become better at cooking and tasting it. I'm about three years into learning to cook, I regularly modify recipes on the fly with relatively dependable success, and this was pretty much exactly the right time to read this book. Two years ago it would have been too intimidating. Mind you, I snorted at a lot of her directives, as they are incompatible with, say, a regular habit of sixty-hour work weeks. I am just going to use the lemon juice in the glass bottle instead of reaming a lemon every time, no matter how horrified she is, and I'm cool with that. I can't speak to the included recipes, not having tried any yet, but several looked promising. Also, I read the audio, but bought the hardcover for my FiL last Christmas, and it is a really beautiful book.