Book Description—Tried and True Recipes

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Kitchen and cooking are love/hate subjects. Those who love the process look at and collect anything and everything that has to do with cooking and food. This book, Tried and True Recipes from a Caterer's Kitchen, was written for the kitchen and food gurus, yet it is also an ideal book for those whose kitchen's purpose is to make coffee and heat frozen meals in the microwave, but who want a better daily fare.

    The book includes a wealth of information useful in everyday cooking for beginners and serious cooks: references, charts, sidebars and tables that can help with cooking, baking and shopping--tools that very few cookbooks include. Undoubtedly, such information makes anyone a more efficient, quicker and a better cook.

    Using my background (Ph.D. and working career in science), I peppered the text with tidbits of physics and chemistry related to cooking to give the cook an understanding of what is happening inside the pot while it is over the fire.

    The 42 recipes in the book are truly tried and true; most of them came from my catering kitchen. I have used them repeatedly, improving and perfecting them over the years until they are foolproof. All recipe ingredients can be found in any well-stocked market and, with a few exceptions, require no special culinary expertise to prepare. Although they came from a catering collection, the recipes are down-scaled to family size for everyday use.

    This book is useful in any cook's kitchen library.