The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Substitutions

by Ellen Brown

Book Overview

Accept all substitutions In anyone's kitchen-from that of a chef to an amateur cook-there comes a time when an essential ingredient is missing, or perhaps a substitution is needed for a special... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592576990
• ISBN13: 9781592576999
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Alpha Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Good for every cook

If you ever had the experience of making dinner and suddenly discover you don't have an ingredient this is the book for you.

Saved!

In the summer and on weekends I live 1/2 hour from the nearest grocery store. Running out for a quart of buttermilk is not an option. This book is my security blanket and has bailed me out more often than I care to admit. It is on my shelf next to the great classics.

Complete and thorough!

A complete and thorough compilation of cooking substitutes, easy to use, and wonderful to reach for at those times you lack a special ingredient on your shelf.

More than it's title indicates

I love this book, it not only saved my butt when i couldn'd find any fresh mulberries (the book said blackberries are a good substitute) but I also use it regularly as a food dictionary and general reference book, the section on dried pasta is great. Kenn Speiser

Unstressed in the Kitchen

"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Substitutions" enables me to reproduce great recipes any time, day or night. If I lack something in a recipe I'm following, I can just look up the ingredient and its best substitutions and then keep on cooking. No more last minute runs to the grocery. Really diminished worry about "will it still taste good?" I plan on giving lots of these books as Christmas presents this year.