Aromas of Aleppo

Aromas of Aleppo
Author: Poopa Dweck
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2011-09-20
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0062042645

When the Aleppian Jewish community migrated from the ancient city of Aleppo in historic Syria and settled in New York and Latin American cities in the early 20th century, it brought its rich cuisine and vibrant culture. Most Syrian recipes and traditions, however, were not written down and existed only in the minds of older generations. Poopa Dweck, a first generation Syrian–Jewish American, has devoted much of her life to preserving and celebrating her community's centuries–old legacy. Dweck relates the history and culture of her community through its extraordinary cuisine, offering more than 180 exciting ethnic recipes with tantalizing photos and describing the unique customs that the Aleppian Jewish community observes during holidays and lifecycle events. Among the irresistible recipes are: •Bazargan–Tangy Tamarind Bulgur Salad •Shurbat Addes–Hearty Red Lentil Soup with Garlic and Coriander •Kibbeh–Stuffed Syrian Meatballs with Ground Rice •Samak b'Batata–Baked Middle Eastern Whole Fish with Potatoes •Sambousak–Buttery Cheese–Filled Sesame Pastries •Eras bi'Ajweh–Date–Filled Crescents •Chai Na'na–Refreshing Mint Tea Like mainstream Middle Eastern cuisines, Aleppian Jewish dishes are alive with flavor and healthful ingredients–featuring whole grains, vegetables, legumes, and olive oil–but with their own distinct cultural influences. In Aromas of Aleppo, cooks will discover the best of Poopa Dweck's recipes, which gracefully combine Mediterranean and Levantine influences, and range from small delights (or maza) to daily meals and regal holiday feasts–such as the twelve–course Passover seder.

The Fermentation Kitchen

The Fermentation Kitchen
Author: Sam Cooper
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2024-11-07
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0241731712

From kimchi to miso, kombucha to ginger beer, The Fermentation Kitchen introduces you to the alchemy of fermentation – taking simple ingredients and transforming them in form and flavour. Explore a wide range of authentic and adapted techniques from across cultures and continents and harness bacteria, yeast, and fungus to create a variety of ferments to add flavour to dishes, boost gut health, and give perishable produce a new lease of life. Reconnect with these natural processes and learn to incorporate ferments into your everyday cooking with guides to flavour, texture and aroma alongside recipe ideas serving as inspiration.

The Malaysian Kitchen

The Malaysian Kitchen
Author: Christina Arokiasamy
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2017-03-21
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0544810023

“A mouthwatering introduction to Malaysian cooking”—curries, noodles, stir fries, street foods, and more—from the author of The Spice Merchant’s Daughter (Publishers Weekly). A delicious and informal mashup of Southeast Asian and European influences, Malaysian cooking is full of flavor and easy to love. Chef and author Christina Arokiasamy brings it into the American home kitchen. This cuisine borrows from the traditions of Thailand, India, China, and Portugal for dishes as varied as Chili Prawns, Salmon Tandoori, Hainanese Chicken Rice, and Grilled Lamb with Rosemary Pesto. Christina gives recipes for authentic Malaysian favorites like Beef Rendang and Char Kway Teow Noodles, while also sharing her own modern iterations, such as Wok-Fried Spaghetti with Kale. An assortment of sambals and chili sauces—simply thrown together in a blender—gets you started on your way to these dishes but are so tasty and versatile you’ll find yourself using them in the rest of your everyday cooking. Vivid on-location photography takes the reader into the spice markets, coffee houses, fishing villages, and kitchen gardens that inspired each recipe. “Approachable but not oversimplified . . . This standout introduction to Malaysian cooking will call to adventurous eaters and armchair travelers.”—Library Journal “For novices and aficionados alike, Christina Arokiasamy’s The Malaysian Kitchen will prove a welcome companion . . . And the recipes are so good that reading them is almost as pleasant as tasting the finished products.”—The Washington Times “Perfect for anyone wanting to learn more about that country’s vibrant, aromatic cooking.”—The Advocate

My Aromatic Kitchen

My Aromatic Kitchen
Author: Kille Enna
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Cooking (Herbs)
ISBN: 9783791382838

In this ingenious and delectable cookbook, accomplished and innovative chef Kille Enna shows readers how to use simple aromatic blends of herbs, spices, fruits, and vegetables to create unforgettable meals. With nine cook and lifestyle books to her name, Kille Enna has become an icon of simple organic elegance. In this cookbook she distills the lessons she's learned from a life devoted to spices and herbs into timeless recipes that anyone can make. Enna's message is straightforward: the tastiest most flavor-packed meals include fresh, high-quality ingredients, prepared simply by adding aromatic blends. Here she offers fifty recipes, each featuring a key ingredient combined with an aromatic blend of spices, herbs, fruits, and vegetables. Inspired by the harvest from her own organic garden in southern Sweden, this book's recipes range from the crisp, cool offerings of winter to the sultry, sensuous heat of summer. Using ingredients that are in season and widely available, Enna shows how combinations of spices and herbs can transform everyday foods into refined meals. In between recipes, Enna offers in-depth tips on everything from cast iron skillets to edible flowers. Bathed in the colorful radiance of Enna's own photography and infused with her lifelong passion for nature and simple living, this is a cookbook that will appeal to the senses and that will remain an essential reference in kitchens everywhere.

Secrets of a Professional Kitchen

Secrets of a Professional Kitchen
Author: Aanal Kotak
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2023-01-05
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1685233198

Eating out or ordering food is one of the many guilty pleasures we all like to indulge in. So, what is it about restaurant food that we are all so hooked onto it? Why can’t we recreate the same recipes at home? Well, now you can with Secrets of a Professional Kitchen by Aanal Kotak. This cookbook is a gift to all home cooks who enjoy cooking and want to flaunt their skills by dishing out restaurant style food at home. The author gives you a peek into professional kitchens and their best kept secrets. The easy-to-follow recipes that range from across the globe will help you create food experiences sitting in the comfort of your home. The pro tips that accompany each recipe will make sure that you don’t go wrong at any step. In an Instagrammable world, food is best shared through pictures. Keeping that in mind, each recipe in the book is elegantly plated and photographed just for you. Secrets of a Professional Kitchen will transform every home cook into a Chef and every home kitchen into a Professional kitchen. Reviews: “Eating out at restaurants feels good. But cooking restaurant style food in your home kitchen feels better! And this book is all about it ~ insider tips, tricks, hacks and secrets straight from a professional kitchen to your home kitchen. Aanal Kotak, a successful TV host and restauranteur knows it best!” - Masterchef Nikita Gandhi “I believe that passion is the key ingredient to being a good chef. I have seen this passion reflect in all facets of Aanal’s career. She always excels in whatever she lays her hand on and this cookbook is no exception. It reveals all the top secrets about cooking restaurant style food that chefs usually don’t share. You can blindly follow these recipes at home and get ready to be showered with tons of compliments! My blessings and best wishes to Aanal on this new role as author.” - Mrs. Hina Gautam (Senior Culinary Expert - Colors Gujarati)

The Elements of Cooking

The Elements of Cooking
Author: Michael Ruhlman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2007-11-06
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1416579222

New York Times bestselling author Michael Ruhlman deconstructs the "essential knowledge all cooks and food people need" (The New York Times Book Review) to reveal what professional chefs know only after years of training and experience. With alphabetically ordered entries and eight beautifully written essays, Ruhlman outlines what it takes to cook well: understanding heat, using the right tools, cooking with eggs, making stock, making sauce, salting food, what a cook should read, and exploring the most important skill to have in the kitchen, finesse. The Elements of Cooking gives everyone the tools they need to go from being a good cook to a great one.

On Food and Cooking

On Food and Cooking
Author: Harold McGee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 898
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1416556370

A kitchen classic for over 35 years, and hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is the bible which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn to for an understanding of where our foods come from, what exactly they're made of, and how cooking transforms them into something new and delicious. For its twentieth anniversary, Harold McGee prepared a new, fully revised and updated edition of On Food and Cooking. He has rewritten the text almost completely, expanded it by two-thirds, and commissioned more than 100 new illustrations. As compulsively readable and engaging as ever, the new On Food and Cooking provides countless eye-opening insights into food, its preparation, and its enjoyment. On Food and Cooking pioneered the translation of technical food science into cook-friendly kitchen science and helped birth the inventive culinary movement known as "molecular gastronomy." Though other books have been written about kitchen science, On Food and Cooking remains unmatched in the accuracy, clarity, and thoroughness of its explanations, and the intriguing way in which it blends science with the historical evolution of foods and cooking techniques. Among the major themes addressed throughout the new edition are: · Traditional and modern methods of food production and their influences on food quality · The great diversity of methods by which people in different places and times have prepared the same ingredients · Tips for selecting the best ingredients and preparing them successfully · The particular substances that give foods their flavors, and that give us pleasure · Our evolving knowledge of the health benefits and risks of foods On Food and Cooking is an invaluable and monumental compendium of basic information about ingredients, cooking methods, and the pleasures of eating. It will delight and fascinate anyone who has ever cooked, savored, or wondered about food.

Voices in the Kitchen

Voices in the Kitchen
Author: Meredith E. Abarca
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2006
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1603445633

"Literally, chilaquiles are a breakfast I grew up eating: fried corn tortillas with tomato-chile sauce. Symbolically, they are the culinary metaphor for how working-class women speak with the seasoning of their food."?from the Introduction?Through the ages and across cultures, women have carved out a domain in which their cooking allowed them to express themselves, strengthen family relationships, and create a world of shared meanings with other women. In Voices in the Kitchen, Meredith E. Abarca features the voices of her mother and several other family members and friends, seated at their kitchen tables, to share the grassroots world view of these working-class Mexican and Mexican American women. In the kitchen, Abarca demonstrates, women assert their own saz?n (seasoning), not only in their cooking but also in their lives. Through a series of oral histories, or charlas culinarias (culinary chats), the women interviewed address issues of space, sensual knowledge, artistic and narrative expression, and cultural and social change. From her mother?s breakfast chilaquiles to the most elaborate traditional dinner, these women share their lives as they share their savory, symbolic, and theoretical meanings of food. The charlas culinarias represent spoken personal narratives, testimonial autobiography, and a form of culinary memoir, one created by the cooks-as-writers who speak from their kitchen space. Abarca then looks at writers-as-cooks to add an additional dimension to the understanding of women?s power to define themselves. Voices in the Kitchen joins the extensive culinary research of the last decade in exploring the importance of the knowledge found in the practical, concrete, and temporal aspects of the ordinary practice of everyday cooking.

LOOK IN THE MIRROR

LOOK IN THE MIRROR
Author: E. B. Rogers
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2021-04-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1649522878

John Murphy is a man of little character who desperately wants to attain rank, authority and respect within his volunteer fire company. His covert campaign to garner enough votes to win the position of second lieutenant comes to an end on election night leading to an epic confrontation between Murphy and his nemesis Gus Bennett, a former Marine who possesses all the virtues that Murphy desires. Later that same evening with snow falling from a late November cold front, a fire erupts at the Stokes Boarding House. Murphy rescues a woman and a child only to learn later of the death of one male resident. The investigation into the cause of the fire by county detective George Hampton reveals the truth of what happened at Stokes. A story of character, morals, faith and discipline told through the lives of the residents of Liberty Falls, New York in 1962.