Amateur chefs, get this book!
Posted by Roy Tomeij | Filed under Book, Cooking
I’m (of course) talking about “Food” by Christian Teubner. But to start with the downside: it’s only available second hand. Amazon doesn’t feature it at all, and others seem to offer no new copies.
Although this post is categorized as “book” and “cooking”, it’s by no means a cookbook: the (well over-sized) 336 pages don’t have one single recipe on them. But as you probably know, you can’t cook a decent meal if you don’t know your ingredients. And that’s why this book covers probably all ingredients you will ever use, with full colour pictures and a short description for all of them.
I found it highly entertaining to browse the book to find out what the characteristics of an ingredient are and what they look like. When going to the market there always is some stuff I don’t know or recognize. Since the book is organized by product type, it’s easy to find something just by the looks (if you saw yellowish beans, browse through “vegetables” > “beans” for instance). For each product type there’s some more information than for the individual ingredients (which makes sense), accompanied by more pictures.
Recommended for every (amateur) chef, and even more so if you also like tasteful photography.
Tags: ingredients, photography
