Taste: A New Way to Cook

Taste: A New Way to Cook

by David Loftus (Photographer), SybilKapoor (Author)

Synopsis

Taste approaches cooking in a radical new way. It teaches the reader how to cook by using the five basic tastes - sweet, sour, bitter, salt and umami (savoury) - and reveals that anyone can make delicious food at home by simply understanding how these tastes react to one another. Each chapter is based around a different taste, and takes the reader on a gastronomic journey of discovery. Consider Sour for example: the chapter begins with recipes for drinks and soups to demonstrate the effect of combining either salt, bitter, sweet or umami with sour; as the chapter progresses the dishes - and the variety of tastes found in them - become increasingly complex. By following these chapters, the reader learns how to create meals with complementary ingredients so that every dish tastes amazing. Two final chapters on Chilli and Flavours explore how ingredients such as dried kashmiri chillies, paprika, mint, saffron, rosewater and vanilla pod alter our perception of taste, and there are recipes for each of the ingredients featured.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: 01
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Published: 18 May 2006

ISBN 10: 1845332253
ISBN 13: 9781845332259

Media Reviews
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Author Bio
SYBIL KAPOOR is one of Britain's most respected food writers. In 2002 she won the prestigious Glenfiddich Magazine Cookery Writer of the year award and her radio four series Forgotten Fruit and Vegetables for Women's Hour won the Glenfiddich Radio Programme award. Once the sous chef at Jam's Restaurant in New York and Head chef at London's Sally Clarke's, she has written two books: Modern British Food and the prize-winning Simply British and writes regularly for the Observer Life Magazine, Saturday Independent, Waitrose Food Illustrated and House & Garden.