How to Pick a Peach: The search for flavor from Farm to table. - Parsons, Russ.
The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table
KORTE INHOUD
Critics greeted Russ Parsons’ first book, How to Read a French Fry, with raves. The New York Times praised it for its “affable voice and intellectual clarity”; Julia Child lauded it for its “deep factual information.”
Now in How to Pick a Peach, Parsons takes on one of the hottest food topics today. Good cooking starts with the right ingredients, and nowhere is that more true than with produce. Should we refrigerate that peach? How do we cook that artichoke? And what are those different varieties of pears? Most of us aren’t sure. Parsons helps the cook sort through the produce in the market by illuminating the issues surrounding it, revealing intriguing facts about vegetables and fruits in individual profiles about them, and providing instructions on how to choose, store, and prepare these items. Whether explaining why basil, citrus, tomatoes, and potatoes should never be refrigerated, describing how Dutch farmers revolutionized the tomato business in America, exploring organic farming and its effect on flavor...
Now in How to Pick a Peach, Parsons takes on one of the hottest food topics today. Good cooking starts with the right ingredients, and nowhere is that more true than with produce. Should we refrigerate that peach? How do we cook that artichoke? And what are those different varieties of pears? Most of us aren’t sure. Parsons helps the cook sort through the produce in the market by illuminating the issues surrounding it, revealing intriguing facts about vegetables and fruits in individual profiles about them, and providing instructions on how to choose, store, and prepare these items. Whether explaining why basil, citrus, tomatoes, and potatoes should never be refrigerated, describing how Dutch farmers revolutionized the tomato business in America, exploring organic farming and its effect on flavor...
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2007 Uitgever: Houghton Mifflin 412 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0618463488 ISBN-13: 9780618463480Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Bound in boards with dustwrapper vii-xvi. 412 pp. Light traces of use on wrapper. Index. 23.3x16x3.2 cm. Near fine/In very good condition. [Auteur: Parsons, Russ] [Uitgever: Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston / New York, 2007] [Titel: How to Pick a Peach: The search for flavor from Farm to table]
