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Aliza Green

    Aliza Green è un'influente autrice, giornalista e chef, celebrata per la sua conoscenza enciclopedica degli ingredienti, esplorando la loro storia, cultura e applicazione sia in cucina che in pasticceria. I suoi scritti si immergono nelle profondità della tradizione culinaria e dell'innovazione, offrendo ai lettori una guida pratica ma ispiratrice. La capacità di Green di unire una vasta esperienza culinaria a una prosa accessibile l'ha resa una voce rispettata nell'ambito dei libri di cucina e della scrittura gastronomica. I suoi libri sono noti per celebrare la diversità e la ricchezza degli ingredienti, invitando i lettori in un viaggio alla scoperta dei sapori.

    Making Artisan Pasta
    Field Guide to Produce. How to Identify, Select, and Prepare Virtually Every Fruit and Vegetable at the Market
    Field Guide to Meat
    • Making Artisan Pasta

      • 178pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      "Homemade rules in the kitchen, and everyone from artisan bakers to canners and picklers know it.Culinary enthusiasts and hungry home cooks are exploring classic skills again, and making homemade, hand-shaped pasta is on the rise. With the simplest ingredients and easier-than-you-think instructions, Making Artisan Pasta teaches you how make your own linguine, ravioli, lasagna, and dozens of other styles of pasta and noodles by hand. The fully illustrated, step-by-step tutorials will walk you through the entire tasty process, from mixing dough, rolling, and shaping pasta through cooking, serving, and storing pasta for later. Going way beyond noodles, though, this book includes tutorials on gnocchi, Chinese pot stickers, pierogi, and dozens of other world pastas. Through author and chef Aliza Green's expertise and encyclopedia knowledge of all things culinary, plus hundreds of gorgeous photos by acclaimed food photographer Steve Legato, you will learn everything there is to know about making fresh, delicious pasta in your home kitchen....and you'll never look at the supermarket pasta aisle the same way again"--

      Making Artisan Pasta2012
    • Field Guide to Meat

      How to Identify, Select, and Prepare Virtually Every Meat, Poultry, and Game Cut

      • 311pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      At last, a field guide to identifying and selecting more than 200 different cuts and kinds of meat, from beef and poultry to game and cured meat! An essential resource for every home cook or chef, Field Guide to Meat offers details on virtually every kind of meat available. This practical guide includes more than 200 full-color photographs of cuts of beef, veal, pork, lamb, game, and poultry as well as more than 100 different kinds of cured meats and sausages. Cross-referenced with the photographs are in-depth descriptions of the cuts, including basic history, location in the animal, characteristics, information on how to choose the cut, and flavor affinities. Step-by-step preparation directions tell you whether the item is best marinated, braised, grilled, roasted, or pan-seared. Trips to the butcher’s aisle will no longer be intimidating, and you’ll never end up with a cut that’s too tough for dinner.

      Field Guide to Meat2005
      4,0
    • At last, a field guide to identifying and selecting more than 200 fruits and vegetables from around the world! The perfect companion for every shopper, Field Guide to Produce offers tips for selecting, storing, and preparing everything from apples to zucchini. When an unfamiliar edible appears on your grocer’s shelf, simply flip through the full-color insert until you’ve found its photograph. Turn to the corresponding page to discover its country of origin, common uses, and season of harvest. This practical guide includes more than 200 full-color photographs of the world’s most popular fruits and vegetables, cross-referenced to in-depth descriptions and selection tips. Step-by-step preparation directions tell you whether the item must be peeled, washed, trimmed, or blanched. Grocery shopping—and dinner—will never be the same again!

      Field Guide to Produce. How to Identify, Select, and Prepare Virtually Every Fruit and Vegetable at the Market2004
      3,9