The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
Selected Book Details
- Hardcover
- Edition: 1
- Author: Karen Page, Andrew Dornenburg
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
- Release Date: September 2008
- ISBN-10: 0316118400
- ISBN-13: 9780316118408
- List Price: $35.00
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryGreat cooking goes beyond following a recipe--it's knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. Drawing on dozens of leading chefs' combined experience in top restaurants across the country, Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg present the definitive guide to creating "deliciousness" in any dish. Thousands of ingredient entries, organized alphabetically and cross-referenced, provide a treasure trove of spectacular flavor combinations. Readers will learn to work more intuitively and effectively with ingredients; experiment with temperature and texture; excite the nose and palate with herbs, spices, and other seasonings; and balance the sensual, emotional, and spiritual elements of an extraordinary meal. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Great reference
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I wasn't sure about this book when I saw it on amazon. Even when I received it and looked through it I wasn't all that excited. But the next day when I was making pasta and wanted to throw some ingredients together, wow did this book ever come in handy. I was able to cross reference ingredients to see if they fit well together. And I've been using this book almost every day since. It's fantastic if you don't always want to follow a recipe or even if you want to substitute certain ingredients and aren't sure what works well together. Wonderful reference book if you love cooking.
Knowledge is Power
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Any food that is tasteless is not likable. Americans look to foods to taste flavorful. Taste is related to our taste buds. The knowledge in this book tells one how herbs and spices can be used to affect the four basic tastes. Knowing how to awaken the hidden flavors in foods that will pleasure our taste buds is what this book will help you do.
AWESOME BOOK!
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I love this book! I am an amateur cook, as in this is the only book I own on cooking and I got tired of eating doctored up dishes. However, I can see how more professional chefs would like this book as well, since they have experience with all the spices and ingredients.
But so far, I've made quite a few good tasting meals just by using the lists in this book alone. Definitely worth the buy.
awesome, but a challenge for a beginner
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Terrific book and you'll have lots of creative meals with this as a reference. I am really just a novice - trying to break out of the standard recipe rut...but this has been a great "teacher" for me and I am learning not just"what goes with what," but also - why some things go together well and some don't. Try it!
Great in Reference Book, in Hardcover; NOT for Kindle
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I first bought this book as a Kindle download. It is not suited to the Kindle format. That said, the hardcover book is fantastic. This is for cooks who want to venture off the cookbook farm and create. While yes some of the recommended pairs are comman sense, many are great insight into creating flavor and balancing ingredients. I highly recommend this book for the home cooks reference library. Just received mine this week and it already has a small "food blemish" on page 163.
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