James Beard Award Winner (Vegetarian)IACP Award Winner (Healthy Eating) The 10th anniversary edition of the James Beard Award-winner that gives all the tools you need to be at home in your kitchen,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This is a beautiful book aesthetically and offers a ton of useful information on building cooking techniques and the tools needed to do it. What’s confusing is that the instructional information seems geared towards people like me - those who are wanting to transition to a Whole Foods diet and are starting from a novice level - yet 90% of the recipes are very complicated and require specialized equipment and ingredients that can only be sourced from specialty stores. She is clearly writing from the position of extreme privilege having access to incredible foods right down the street from where she lives in Manhattan and the money to buy high end ingredients conveniently and the expensive tools to cook them with. Unless you are in that category this book is basically useless aside from the educational piece. Truly after the first 100 pages you might as well stop since after that only experienced chefs with outstanding resources will find the rest useful. I wouldn’t say it was a complete waste of money but if you’re new to this journey I’d suggest looking for something much simpler to start with.
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