I'm Just Here for the Food: Kitchen User's Manual
by Alton Brown
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Author: Alton BrownEdition: Ring-bound
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-10-01
ISBN: 1584792981
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
Book Reviews of I'm Just Here for the Food: Kitchen User's Manual
Book Review: Do Not Buy This Book Without Looking at a Copy!
Summary: 2 Stars
In many ways, this is the book I expected to find when I looked at AB's Cook's Notes volume, but there are still many reasons to warn potential buyers to look before they leap. In my opinion, the book looses one star for costing 22 bucks for about 12 dollars worth of material, most of which can be found in other sources. The book looses a second star for not filling my expectations for completeness of the material. The table of substitutions, for example, did not have the first three things I looked for, that being buttermilk (!!!), creme fraiche, and Aleppo pepper. I may forgive the last, even though it does appear as a common ingredient in at least three recent cookbooks, but no BUTTERMILK. At least two culinary reference books in my library have substitutions for buttermilk and creme fraiche, not including the Larousse Gastronomique. The book looses a third star for, like the Cooks Notes volume, not being loose leaf bound. The book lost a few points for me when the generally very good diagrams of meat cuts from cows, pigs, and sheep did not include any reference to what Mario Batali calls the fifth quarter, being things like heart, liver, kidneys, sweet breads and (my favorite) guanciale. I have this fantasy that the only thing keeping AB from having his picture on the cover of Gourmet magazine is that he has not, like Mario, done a show on guanciale (pig's jowls). Unlike the Cooks Notes volume, I would not dismiss this volume totally. If you the prospective buyer have no other culinary reference and are inclined to own everything you can with AB's name on it, then I would not want to stop you. But please page through it before laying down your 23 bucks! Otherwise, save your money for a more complete volume such as the Williams Sonama 'Kitchen Companion' volume.
Summary of I'm Just Here for the Food: Kitchen User's Manual
This sturdy kitchen organizer is the perfect companion for any home cook--and essential for fans of Alton Brown's I'm Just Here For the Food. Designed to be a constant kitchen companion, the Kitchen User's Manual has eight separate sections for your recipes, notes, and other cooking essentials. Each section includes a durable full-page plastic pocket to hold clippings, equipment manuals and warranties, and other kitchen paperwork. Blank pages have plenty of space for clippings or handwritten recipes--plus notes on the side. And it's the place for all that cooking information that's rarely gathered in one place: temperature and measurement conversion charts, ingredient substitutions, guides to cuts of meat, cutting and carving diagrams, sanitation and safety information, and much more.Culinary Arts & Techniques Books
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