The Serious New Cook Cookbook features recipes that appeal to the familiar and the new, drawing beginning cooks into the fold by appealing to what they already know and want (meatballs, spaghetti with meat sauce, simple DIY sushi, onion dip with chips, milkshakes, cupcakes) and taking them to the next level with new, multicultural tastes to love: bulgogi meatballs, wild mushroom pot pie, romesco dip, onigiri rice balls, double dalgona milkshakes, and mochi ice cream, and introducing important techniques such as braising meat, making a roux, cooking perfect sushi rice, and fixing a broken buttercream. The recipes are organised into 23 trios, with one core recipe that introduces a technique or concept, followed by two additional recipes that further exemplify the technique or concept. Stunning photos accompany every recipe, including step-by-step photos for the first recipe in every trio, which show readers what each step should look like as they cook. And, unlike other cookbooks that offer a cooking school section that most readers never use, Serious New Cook builds the lessons and tips into the recipes it s like having a chef explaining things as you cook. Readers not only learn to cook each dish, but become more knowledgeable, deeply skilled cooks in the process. There are few cookbooks that address the needs of young adults who have advanced and adventurous palates, but who don t have the cooking skills necessary to make the foods they love to eat. Existing cookbooks lack the built-in lessons and hand-holding young adult cooks and even newbie adult cooks! require. The Serious New Cook Cookbook fills that gap.
Leah Su Quiroga, a former head chef at the renowned California restaurant, Chez Panisse, runs a small farm in Sebastopol, California. Her sister, Cammie Kim Lin, is a serious home cook who got her start in commercial kitchens before becoming a professor and writer. Cal Peternell, also a former chef at Chez Panisse, is a New York Times best-selling cookbook author.
Title: (Serious) New Cook: Recipes, Tips, and Techniques
Author: Quiroga, Leah Su,Kim Lin, Cammie
ISBN: 9781599621654
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Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Publication Date: 2022-10-04
Number of Pages: 256
Weight: 1.1903 kg
Fall Cookbook Round-up: A question I get a lot is: okay, I have learned the basics. I can boil pasta and cut an onion and make a salad. What book will get me to the next level? And there are a few I recommend regularly (chief among them Martha Stewart's Cooking School) BUT most of them are kind of stuffy and kind of boring. (Serious) New Cook by sisters Leah Su Quiroga and Cammie Kim Lin, on the other hand, is aimed at a younger audience and takes inspiration from around the world. Get this one for your cousin who just moved into her first apartment. -STAINED PAGE NEWSLETTER
Inexperienced cooks are often faced with choosing between beginner books teaching mundane recipes or standard cookbooks that are more enticing but also overwhelming for newcomers. Into the mix comes this book written by chefs who are sisters, based on the food they learned to cook in their mother's multicultural kitchen, with recipes designed to teach and inspire. The opening chapter is a cooking class in itself. It offers definitions of ingredients, processes, and equipment with excellent informative pictures illustrating things like stiff peaks vs. soft peaks in egg whites, colors and kinds of Asian hot sauces, and types of salt. The recipes themselves are grouped in threes: a core recipe and two variations with invitations for making versions of one's own. The content is not overwhelming, and starters, mains, and sweets cover the standard meal. The cookbook has a definite Asian influence, but the dishes are wide-ranging: chicken potpie sits next to a sushi party; arepas coexist with egg drop soup and vinaigrettes. VERDICT Sure to be a winner, with lovely pictures, clear and cheerful prose, and the promise of tasty food. -LIBRARY JOURNAL