Pros & Cons
Pros
Shirley corriher's "cookwise" is a great cookbook. Each recipe demonstrates a principal. The "sources" chapter includes ingredient and equipment sources. The author, shirley. Corriher, is a delightful, knowledgeable scientist * cook.
Highlights
Competitiveness
Its supergreat recipes and the book tells you why things works in the cooking
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It was like going to a fun school with mrs
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
There are times though that i found it a little frustrating because the scientific information was there but the basic recipe was missing
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Also i was surprised that with all the information on frying foods there was no actual recipe for fried chicken the one fried recipe most of us are willing to put aside healthy eating for occasionally
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
All in all its a very informative book and except for the missing recipes and the fact that the information is not in my opinion as well organized as it could be i would have given it 5 stars
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There’s even a “finetuning cookies” chart
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Shirley gets called in by chefs to help them figure out why their recipes are going wrong
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The layout is clear and obvious although a few recipes do trail onto the next page occasionally necessitating flipping back and forth
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you have any amount of curiosity about the way cooking works or any desire whatsoever to do something beyond just blindly following recipes then you need a copy of “cookwise