website for cooking "rules"

Chuck said:

Any website out there that lists such things as:
"If you're going to add salt to XXXX, add it after it's cooked
because..."
or what are the penalties for adding more than "one egg at a time"

in other words
general rules for cooking
Thanks
Chuck

How about a good book? "The Way to Cook" by Julia Child will rid you of the
anxieties and show you the basics and how to build on them.

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On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:41:03 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Chuck said:

Any website out there that lists such things as:
"If you're going to add salt to XXXX, add it after it's cooked
because..."
or what are the penalties for adding more than "one egg at a time"

in other words
general rules for cooking
Thanks
Chuck

How about a good book? "The Way to Cook" by Julia Child will rid you of the
anxieties and show you the basics and how to build on them.

Thanks.. I'll check that out.. in the old days,, when I never thought
I'd have to learn to cook...I'd watch Julia Child just to see her
sample the wine!.. (of course in those days we could only recieve 3 or
4 channels on the tv..)
Chuck

Edwin Pawlowski said:

How about a good book? "The Way to Cook" by Julia Child will rid you of the
anxieties and show you the basics and how to build on them.

That's an outstanding book. Another that assumes no pre-existing
knowledge and gives all the basic steps in plain language is "How to
Cook Everything" by Mark Bittman. It's not a collection of great
recipes but I think it would serve as a good textbook. -aem

Chuck said:

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:41:03 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Chuck said:

Any website out there that lists such things as: "If you're going
to add salt to XXXX, add it after it's cooked because..." or
what are the penalties for adding more than "one egg at a time"
in other words general rules for cooking Thanks Chuck

How about a good book? "The Way to Cook" by Julia Child will rid
you of the anxieties and show you the basics and how to build on
them.

Thanks.. I'll check that out.. in the old days,, when I never thought
I'd have to learn to cook...I'd watch Julia Child just to see her
sample the wine!.. (of course in those days we could only recieve 3
or 4 channels on the tv..)

Unfortunately, most of the sort of information you're looking for isn't
usually distributed in tidy little packets. Cooking is a series of steps
that often blend into each other, so the conditions of success or
failure aren't broken out as discrete rules or suggestions very often.

The Joy of Cooking has as one of its hallmarks just the sort of info
you're looking for, but it's scattered all throughout the book (every
edition). If you think of it as a reading book first and a cooking book
second, it can take you a very long way towards the sort of culinary
literacy that frees you to experiment wisely.

Other books:
Any of the "Look and Cook" books by Anne Willan. They illustrate the
techniques for each step in the production of any given dish.
"Cook it Right" by Anne Willan. Pictures of lots of different approaches
including bad ones so you can see what it's supposed to look like and
what it's not supposed to look like.
"How to cook everything" Bittman. Sweeping and knowledgeable.
A real oldie-goldie pair are Jacques Pepin's "La Technique" and "La
Methode" - brilliant books.

There are many others that could be included, but this is a very good start.

Pastorio

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:50:14 -0400, "Bob (this one)" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Chuck said:

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:41:03 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Chuck wrote:

> Any website out there that lists such things as: "If you're going
> to add salt to XXXX, add it after it's cooked because..." or
> what are the penalties for adding more than "one egg at a time"
> in other words general rules for cooking Thanks Chuck

How about a good book? "The Way to Cook" by Julia Child will rid
you of the anxieties and show you the basics and how to build on
them.

Thanks.. I'll check that out.. in the old days,, when I never thought
I'd have to learn to cook...I'd watch Julia Child just to see her
sample the wine!.. (of course in those days we could only recieve 3
or 4 channels on the tv..)

Unfortunately, most of the sort of information you're looking for isn't
usually distributed in tidy little packets. Cooking is a series of steps
that often blend into each other, so the conditions of success or
failure aren't broken out as discrete rules or suggestions very often.

The Joy of Cooking has as one of its hallmarks just the sort of info
you're looking for, but it's scattered all throughout the book (every
edition). If you think of it as a reading book first and a cooking book
second, it can take you a very long way towards the sort of culinary
literacy that frees you to experiment wisely.

Other books:
Any of the "Look and Cook" books by Anne Willan. They illustrate the
techniques for each step in the production of any given dish.
"Cook it Right" by Anne Willan. Pictures of lots of different approaches
including bad ones so you can see what it's supposed to look like and
what it's not supposed to look like.
"How to cook everything" Bittman. Sweeping and knowledgeable.
A real oldie-goldie pair are Jacques Pepin's "La Technique" and "La
Methode" - brilliant books.

There are many others that could be included, but this is a very good start.

Pastorio

Thanks for the info
Chuck

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aem said:

Edwin Pawlowski said:

How about a good book? "The Way to Cook" by Julia Child will rid you of the
anxieties and show you the basics and how to build on them.

That's an outstanding book. Another that assumes no pre-existing
knowledge and gives all the basic steps in plain language is "How to
Cook Everything" by Mark Bittman. It's not a collection of great
recipes but I think it would serve as a good textbook. -aem

My dad bought me the Double Day cookbook when he got tired of my icky
experiments. ;-) The cabbage cassarole (it was AWful!) is what did it.

It even has instructions on dressing out a turtle!

Cheers!
--
Om.

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