Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
by Samin Nosrat
Recommended by 4 notable people, including Michael Pollan and David Perell
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Cooking, Easy Cooking, and Cookbooks for Beginners.
A visionary new master class in cooking that distills decades of professional experience into just four simple elements, from the woman declared ?America?s next great cooking teacher? by Alice Waters.In the tradition of The Joy of Cooking and How to Cook Everything comes Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, an ambitious new approach to cooking by a major new cul...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Cooking, Easy Cooking, and Cookbooks for Beginners.
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Ben Silbermann
“I enjoy cooking, and this book taught me a lot of the basics of flavor and cooking technique.”
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