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Molecular Gastronomy Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History): Exploring the Science of Flavor ... the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)by: Herve This August 01, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Food and Beverage |
List Price: £10.50 Vegetarian Books Price: £8.93 You Save: £1.57 (15%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £6.09 |
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I bought this book hoping to learn some hard science behind cooking and I'm very disappointed. The book consists mostly of anecdotes of what scientists from Dijon found in one kind of wine/cheese/meat or another but hardly any of this can be extrapolated to everyday cooking and it doesn't give any sort of a big picture view on food - just a lot of details.
The book also contains a few interesting ideas, especially on non-traditional emulsions/foams/suspensions/gels - in particular chapter 97 "Everything Chocolate" is very interesting. Overall I'd suggest buying another book. It's pleasant to read but amount of useful or enlightening content is quite low. >>More Details |
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How to Brew: Everything You Need to Know to Brew Beer Right for the First Timeby: John J. Palmer May 24, 2006 Best Selling > Books > Food and Beverage |
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For the technical side of brewing this book covers what you need to know! I also have the "complete joy of homebrewing" which is also a great book and lot of fun to read, but to be honest it is not as up to date as this book. I recommend this book together with "designing great beer" - with this set you'll be able to brew the most common types of beer with very good results.
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The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled it: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled Itby: Tilar J. Mazzeo November 15, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Food and Beverage |
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For the technical side of brewing this book covers what you need to know! I also have the "complete joy of homebrewing" which is also a great book and lot of fun to read, but to be honest it is not as up to date as this book. I recommend this book together with "designing great beer" - with this set you'll be able to brew the most common types of beer with very good results.
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Basic Butchering of Livestock and Gameby: John J. Mettler December 27, 1998 Best Selling > Books > Food and Beverage |
List Price: £12.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £8.44 You Save: £4.55 (35%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £7.79 |
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I thought I might just comment on the content of the book:
This book tells you how to kill, slaughter, and cut up your meat, and a bit on preparation (curing / salting etc). I had hoped it would have more on the "butchery" aspects, i.e. cutting up & preparing the meat / processing etc. I'd just bought a fore-quarter from the butcher and I bought this book to help me cut it up, and it wasn't exactly what I was after. I tend to buy pork / lamb by the half animal (much cheaper) and I was hoping this book would teach me to cut it up myself. I think i'll have to try another book with more space devoted to this sort of info. Note that its American written so some of the cuts are different to what ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Food (Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)by: Herve This November 01, 2007 Best Selling > Books > Food and Beverage |
List Price: £13.50 Vegetarian Books Price: £12.83 You Save: £0.67 ( 5%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £16.59 |
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I thought I might just comment on the content of the book:
This book tells you how to kill, slaughter, and cut up your meat, and a bit on preparation (curing / salting etc). I had hoped it would have more on the "butchery" aspects, i.e. cutting up & preparing the meat / processing etc. I'd just bought a fore-quarter from the butcher and I bought this book to help me cut it up, and it wasn't exactly what I was after. I tend to buy pork / lamb by the half animal (much cheaper) and I was hoping this book would teach me to cut it up myself. I think i'll have to try another book with more space devoted to this sort of info. Note that its American written so some of the cuts are different to what ... Read More: >>More Details |
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McCance and Widdowson's the Composition of Foods: Summary Edition (6th Edition)by: Great Britain. Food Standards Agency September 26, 2002 Best Selling > Books > Food and Beverage |
List Price: £49.50 Vegetarian Books Price: £47.03 You Save: £2.47 ( 5%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £53.54 |
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Clear with the information that is needed giving nutritional data for reference and for labelling claims
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Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The Dark History of the Food Cheatsby: Bee Wilson January 24, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Food and Beverage |
List Price: £16.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £11.89 You Save: £5.10 (30%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £13.36 |
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Remember Love Hearts? Those pastel tablets of sherbert with a message printed on each one, like a British version of the fortune cookie? I expected Swindled to be about the brain rotting consequences of the hideous chemicals used in delicacies just like these. I settled down, full of delightful anticipation of statistics proving that consuming Jammie Dodgers makes other people's children (not mine of course) uncontrollable psychopaths.
I was disappointed. Not Swindled (the title is a tempting target, but just too easy), because the book is about food counterfeiting, but not the kind I was expecting to read about. Instead I got an account of the attempts of some early chemists to find out what was actually happening to the food that people ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Science of Cookingby: Peter Barham October 04, 2000 Best Selling > Books > Food and Beverage |
List Price: £29.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £28.49 You Save: £1.50 ( 5%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £23.00 |
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Having been lectured by the author in Physics at the University of Bristol it was interesting to read a book that continued to portray his enthusiasm for science. A thoroughly useful book that has definately improved my understanding of cooking, would have liked a bit more physics, and as I know he posseses great explanatory skills to illuminate topics that would appear otherwise unfathomable to the non-physicist, I feel this may be it's only low. However this book is certainly accesible to all and has some good basic recipes to illustrate the scientific principles covered.
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Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Stylesby: Ray Daniels December 01, 1996 Best Selling > Books > Food and Beverage |
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This is an excellent book with much useful content and advice. However, it is let down in my opinion by the significant use of statistics from the American Homebrewers Association competitions. I am sure that AHA members brew some fantastic beers but are the ingredients they use in brews aimed at winning competitions really a reliable indication of what defines any given beer style? For example, in the discussion of ingredients used in English Pale Ales Table 16.10 shows that commercial brewers almost always use English hops with Goldings, Fuggles and Challenger dominating as might be expected. However, the statistics shown in Table 16.11 show that AHA members tended to use Goldings, Cascade or Fuggles in that order. The distinctive American Cascade doesn't get a ... Read More:
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Grinding it out: The Making of Mcdonaldsby: Ray Kroc July 01, 1990 Best Selling > Books > Food and Beverage |
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This is a fascinating insight into the man who propelled McDonald's into a global company and influenced whole other industries in the process. If you liked 'Behind the Arches' by John F Love, then you will definitely enjoy this! Although it doesn't go into quite as much detail, it is definitely more inspiring and entertaining.
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