Overview
Una auténtica biblia para los amantes y profesionales de la gastronomía de todo el mundo. Una guía completa que explica de dónde vienen los alimentos, cómo se transforman y cuál es el camino para convertirlos en algo nuevo.
La cocina y los alimentos es un extraordinario compendio de información básica acerca de los ingredientes, las técnicas culinarias y los placeres del comer, que deleitará y fascinará a cualquiera que haya cocinado, saboreado la comida o disfrutado alguna vez de ella.
Organizado a modo de diccionario, con numerosos cuadros explicativos, en sus páginas podemos hallar desde las distintas familias de alimentos hasta el mejor modo de prepararlos, la evolución de la gastronomía a lo largo de la historia o las reacciones físicas y químicas que sufren los alimentos cuando se cocinan.
Con el prólogo de Andoni Adúriz, chef del restaurante Mugaritz (Guipúzcoa), elegido el décimo mejor restaurante del mundo en 2006, La cocina y los alimentos es una edición especial encuadernada en tela. Perfecta para regalar
«Harold McGee se recrea en esta obra con verdadera pluma de enciclopedista, sesudo, minucioso, brillante. Es una de las obras fundamentales que esperábamos ver traducidas al castellano y estoy verdaderamente impaciente por tenerla cuanto antes, entre mis manos. Un clásico fundamental que todo civilizado gourmet ansiará colocar en su biblioteca.».- Andoni Aduriz, Restaurante Mugaritz
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A kitchen classic for nearly 35 years.
Hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is the bible to which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn for an understanding of where our foods come from, what exactly they're made of, and how cooking transforms them into something new and delicious.
For its twentieth anniversary, Harold McGee prepared a new, fully revised and updated edition of On Food and Cooking. He has rewritten the text almost completely, expanded it by two-thirds, and commissioned more than 100 new illustrations. As compulsively readable and engaging as ever, the new On Food and Cooking provides countless eye-opening insights into food, its preparation, and its enjoyment.
On Food and Cooking pioneered the translation of technical food science into cook-friendly kitchen science and helped birth the inventive culinary movement known as "molecular gastronomy." Though other books have been written about kitchen science, On Food and Cooking remains unmatched in the accuracy, clarity, and thoroughness of its explanations, and the intriguing way in which it blends science with the historical evolution of foods and cooking techniques.
Among the major themes addressed throughout the new edition are:
· Traditional and modern methods of food production and their influences on food quality
· The great diversity of methods by which people in different places and times have prepared the same ingredients
· Tips for selecting the best ingredients and preparing them successfully
· The particular substances that give foods their flavors, and that give us pleasure
· Our evolving knowledge of the health benefits and risks of foods
On Food and Cooking is an invaluable and monumental compendium of basic information about ingredients, cooking methods, and the pleasures of eating. It will delight and fascinate anyone who has ever cooked, savored, or wondered about food.
La cocina y los alimentos es un extraordinario compendio de información básica acerca de los ingredientes, las técnicas culinarias y los placeres del comer, que deleitará y fascinará a cualquiera que haya cocinado, saboreado la comida o disfrutado alguna vez de ella.
Organizado a modo de diccionario, con numerosos cuadros explicativos, en sus páginas podemos hallar desde las distintas familias de alimentos hasta el mejor modo de prepararlos, la evolución de la gastronomía a lo largo de la historia o las reacciones físicas y químicas que sufren los alimentos cuando se cocinan.
Con el prólogo de Andoni Adúriz, chef del restaurante Mugaritz (Guipúzcoa), elegido el décimo mejor restaurante del mundo en 2006, La cocina y los alimentos es una edición especial encuadernada en tela. Perfecta para regalar
«Harold McGee se recrea en esta obra con verdadera pluma de enciclopedista, sesudo, minucioso, brillante. Es una de las obras fundamentales que esperábamos ver traducidas al castellano y estoy verdaderamente impaciente por tenerla cuanto antes, entre mis manos. Un clásico fundamental que todo civilizado gourmet ansiará colocar en su biblioteca.».- Andoni Aduriz, Restaurante Mugaritz
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A kitchen classic for nearly 35 years.
Hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is the bible to which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn for an understanding of where our foods come from, what exactly they're made of, and how cooking transforms them into something new and delicious.
For its twentieth anniversary, Harold McGee prepared a new, fully revised and updated edition of On Food and Cooking. He has rewritten the text almost completely, expanded it by two-thirds, and commissioned more than 100 new illustrations. As compulsively readable and engaging as ever, the new On Food and Cooking provides countless eye-opening insights into food, its preparation, and its enjoyment.
On Food and Cooking pioneered the translation of technical food science into cook-friendly kitchen science and helped birth the inventive culinary movement known as "molecular gastronomy." Though other books have been written about kitchen science, On Food and Cooking remains unmatched in the accuracy, clarity, and thoroughness of its explanations, and the intriguing way in which it blends science with the historical evolution of foods and cooking techniques.
Among the major themes addressed throughout the new edition are:
· Traditional and modern methods of food production and their influences on food quality
· The great diversity of methods by which people in different places and times have prepared the same ingredients
· Tips for selecting the best ingredients and preparing them successfully
· The particular substances that give foods their flavors, and that give us pleasure
· Our evolving knowledge of the health benefits and risks of foods
On Food and Cooking is an invaluable and monumental compendium of basic information about ingredients, cooking methods, and the pleasures of eating. It will delight and fascinate anyone who has ever cooked, savored, or wondered about food.
This book title, La cocina y los alimentos: Enciclopedia de la ciencia y la cultura de la comida / On Food and Cooking, ISBN: 9788483067444, by Harold McGee, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (January 21, 2020) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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