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Oct 21, 2010 harold mcgees bestseller on food and cooking has become a reference tool for many home chefs. Hailed by time magazine as a minor masterpiece when it first appeared in 1984, on food and cooking is the bible to which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn for an understanding of where our foods come from, what exactly theyre made of, and how cooking transforms them into something new and delicious. For anyone interested in food nutrition and interaction, and dispelling food myths, this is the definitive book. Charlie trotter, chefowner of charlie trotters harold mcgee changed our lives with his original on food and cooking. While we knew that many things in cooking worked or didnt work, mcgee showed us why. True sousvide cooking involves vacuumpacking the food, which zipping a bag wont do for you. Dave arnold and harold mcgee bust food myths at harvard.
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Harold mcgee writes about the science of food and cooking. An encyclopedia of kitchen science, history and culture by harold mcgee 896pp, hodder. Reviewed in the united kingdom on december 8, 2014. He is a prolific food writer with three books, five years of columns for the new york times and a nature paper to his name. Harold mcgee writes about the chemistry of food and cooking, and the science of everyday life. The keys to a chewy and soft bread interior are a highprotein allpurpose or bread flour and a wet dough. An encyclopedia of kitchen science, history and culture by harold mcgee 20041108 by harold mcgee jan 1, 1859 hardcover. Nov 08, 2004 harold mcgees original on food and cooking was acclaimed as a masterpiece on both sides of the atlantic, and won the 1986 andre simon food book of the year. The wet dough also helps create irregular holes, as does forming the loaves and then retarding them in the fridge overnight before baking. An encyclopedia of kitchen science, history and culture. An encyclopedia of kitchen science, history and culture by harold mcgee, 9780340831496, available at book. Nov 23, 2004 harold mcgee is a worldrenowned authority on the science of food and cooking.
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