The Cook's Bible

The Best of American Home Cooking

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By Christopher Kimball

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The Cook’s Bible takes the mystery out of preparing a great meal. What’s the ideal ratio of oil to vinegar in a vinaigrette? Kimball gives you the answer: 4 1/2 to 1. What’s the secret to perfect roast chicken? A 375(degree) oven and a 170(degree) internal temperature for the thigh. How about the toughest kitchen challenge of all, piecrust? Kimball makes it easy with the right ingredients (including Crisco and butter) and illustrated step-by-step instructions. For these and the rest of America’s best-loved dishes – vegetable soup, poached salmon, roast beef, barbecued ribs, homemade pizza, waffles, chocolate chip cookies, and many others – Kimball has tested and retested to deliver the definitive recipes. In addition to these master recipes, Kimball also serves up a generous helping of appealing variations – nearly 450 recipes in all. Throughout, Kimball elucidates kitchen procedures – butterflying a chicken, for instance, or dicing an onion – with more than 250 beautifully rendered step-by-step illustrations. And he also provides lucid guidance on what kitchen equipment you need and what you can live without – a microwave oven is optional, but good knives are essential – including brand names, model numbers, and prices. From recipes to techniques to equipment, here is a one-volume master class in American home cookery, a cooking school in print for beginners and experienced cooks alike.

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On Sale
Oct 1, 1996
Page Count
464 pages
ISBN-13
9780316493710

Christopher Kimball

About the Author

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street is located at 177 Milk Street in downtown Boston and is dedicated to changing the way America cooks with new flavor combinations and techniques learned around the world. Milk Street is home to Milk Street TV, a three-time Emmy Award–winning public television show, a James Beard Award–winning bimonthly magazine, an award-winning radio show and podcast, a cooking school and an online store with nearly 2,000 kitchen tools and ingredients. Milk Street’s thirteen cookbooks include Cookish, Vegetables and the James Beard–winning Tuesday Nights. Milk Street also invests in nonprofit outreach, partnering with FoodCorp, the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester.

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