Binding: Hardcover
Description: Winner OF THE 2023 IACP Cookbook Award (FOOD Issues AND Matters) In the spirit of books like Salt Fat Acid Heat and Food Lab an informative entertaining and essential guide to taking your kitchen smarts to a higher level from two food world professionals (a chef and a writer). A Publishers Weekly bestseller and one of the top cookbooks of 2022 (Food & Wine The Sporkful CBS Saturday Morning Today Show). When food writer Matt Rodbard met chef Daniel Holzman while covering the opening of his restaurant The Meatball Shop on New York's Lower East Side it was a match made in questions. More than a decade later the pair have remained steadfast friends they write a popular column together and talk text and DM about food constantly. Now in Food IQ they're sharing their passion and deep curiosity for home cooking and the food world zeitgeist with everyone. Featuring 100 essential cooking questions and answers Food IQ includes recipes and instructions for a variety of dishes that utilize a wide range of ingredients and methods. Holzman and Rodbard provide essential information every home cook needs on a variety of cooking fundamentals including: Why does pasta always taste better in a restaurant? (The key to a perfect sauce is not pasta water but a critical step involving emulsification.) When is it okay to cook with frozen vegetables? (Deep breath. It's very much OK but only with certain types.) What is baker's math and why is it the secret to perfect pastry every time? (It uses the weight of flour as the constant and we have a handy chart for you.) Rodbard and Holzman also offer dozens of delicious recipes such as Oyakodon - - Chicken and Eggs Poached in Sweet Soy Sauce Dashi The Cast Iron Quesadilla That Will Change the Way You Quesadilla and 40 Minute Red Sauce. Throughout this culinary reference guide and cookbook readers can expect to find both wisdom and wit as well as stunning photos and illustrations and illuminating conversations with notable chefs writers and food professionals such as Ina Garten Roy Choi Eric Ripert Helen Rosner Th r se Nelson Priya Krishna and Claire Saffitz. From grilling to sous vide handmade pasta to canned fish and deconstructing everything from salt and olive oil to organic produce and natural wine Food IQ is a one - stop shop for foodies and home cooks from novices to the most - adventurous culinarians. You don't know what you don't know.
Title: Food Iq 100 Questions Answers And Recipes To Raise Your Cooking Smarts
Author(s): Rodbard Matt
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063062818
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/22/2022