Conran Cookbook

by Terence Conran, Caroline Conran, Simon Hopkinson

Book Overview

Taking you from the market place to the plate, the Conran Cookbook encompasses everything the home cook needs to know from the essential knowledge necessary to choose and prepare over 1000... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517473240
• ISBN13: 9780517473245
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: Crescent
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This is not just a Cookbook, is a Culinary Encyclopedia

This book is an amazing good reference on cooking techniques, equipment and ingredients. Is like having a chef teaching everything related to food. Here you will very detailed advice on how to select different kind of food (fishes, crustaceans, beef, lamb, pork, vegetables, etc.), with step-by-step descriptions and pictures on how to cut and prepare them, all this even before you see a recipe. That is way I say this is not really a cookbook, but a fantastic textbook about cooking. The third part of the book is the one dedicate to actual recipes. Buy this book if you want to learn how to use kitchen equipment, how to select and prepare food, and as a bonus find excellent recipes where you can put into practice what you have learned.

An Encyclopedia of Food

I had the first (1980) edition of this book, but I lost that copy. I found this one a few years ago and continue to be amazed at the clarity and simplicity of the explanations of everything from details of different vegetables and fishes to how to use kitchen equipment. The recipes in the second half of the book are excellent. They are not the hautest of haute cuisine, but they enable an average cook to prepare an excellent dish. Most important is that the Conran Cookbook teaches one how to prepare food and how to think about its preparation. The recipes illustrate these principles. When I am looking for a basic British-American dish, this is the first place I look for a good recipe. The book is richly illustrated showing technique and equipment. Buy it. You will use it.