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Offering “the hows and whys of successful cooking,” Cookwise, by well-known food writer and culinary sleuth Shirley O. Corriher, tells you how and why things happen in the course of food preparation. The more than 230 outstanding recipes featured not only please the palate, but demonstrate the various roles of ingredients and techniques—making Cookwise an invaluable reference for anyone who has ever wanted to improve on a recipe, make a cake moister, or a roast chicken juicier.
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Hardcover: 524 pages
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks; 1 edition (August 21, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780688102296
ISBN-13: 978-0688102296
ASIN: 0688102298
Product Dimensions:
8 x 1.6 x 10 inches
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
166 customer reviews
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#148,772 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I've been cooking for years and usually fall back to a cookbook from my grandma (published in the 40's), since most new cookbooks I've come across tell you to add a can of this to a package of that and call it scratch cooking. This cookbook is very interesting in that it's got real recipes, AND, more importantly to me, tells you what some of the ingredients do to make your food delish. Also, if I cook a flop (rarely happens), I can figure out what made if flop. Love it. Want to get Bake Wise next, since I bought it as a Christmas gift, and glanced through before I wrapped it, and it does the same thing for baking. I would highly recommend to anyone interested in wanting to know why some recipes turn out great, and a similar recipe turns out not so great.
I've now read from cover to cover Harold McGee's "On Food and Cooking: the Science and Lore of the Kitchen," Shirley Corriher's "Cookwise," and Alton Brown's three books "I'm Just Here for the Food," "I'm Just Here for More Food," and "Gear for Your Kitchen" (the three of which I will count as one book for purposes of this review). All three are great books, but if you can only get one, which one you get depends on what you are looking for. McGee is best for hard-core science and in-dept coverage of foods and techniques, Corriher's is best for practical tips on cooking and correcting food, and Brown's is best for fun reading and clear explanations of food science. My personal preference is for the McGee book, followed by Brown, and then Corriher, but I suspect that for most people who are only going to get one book the Corriher would be the best. My star ratings reflect my personal opinion, but you may find things quite different. Here then are the pluses and minuses of each of the books and who they are best suited for:MCGEE:McGee's book is by far the most complete reference, but it is also the most dense and technical of the three. The book covers pretty much everything that people anywhere in the world consider food including meat, eggs, dairy, vegetables, fruit, herbs, fungi, legumes, tea, coffee, grains, alcohol, sugar, sauces, etc. Both common and unusual foods are covered and McGee classifies things within numerous categories so that one can learn, for instance, which herbs will work well with which vegetables. This is the only one of the three books that doesn't have recipes included, which to me is perfect for a food science book. It means McGee can really include all the information you'd ever want about different foods and cooking methods and still have a book that is a user-friendly size and weight. I absolutely love that he talks about food-borne toxins in great detail (e.g., infectious and toxin-producing microbes in seafood). Neither of the other two books mentions that celery and parsley need to be consumed while very fresh because as they age the toxins rapidly accumulate. And boy is this book thorough. Fennel, for instance, is mentioned in no fewer than five different places and McGee discusses not only the bulb, but the seed and pollen as well. Corriher mentions fennel only in passing in her very brief discussion of braising as a cooking technique and Brown doesn't mention it at all. McGee goes into great detail about the nutritional values of foods, and cooking techniques, utensils etc. His book covers lesser-known foods such as borage, oca, purslane and teff. My favorite food, quinoa, gets several mentions. Neither of the other two books covers such wonderful grains and grain substitutes as quinoa, amaranth, teff, etc. McGee also has wonderful sidebars with recipes from ancient times, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, the origins of food words, and quotations about food. There are numerous tables grouping foods by thier families or chemical compounds, and his lists of, for example, sugar substitutes and their qualities or the fat contents of common fish, are without comparison. I absolutely love this book. That said, however, you would have to have a significant background in chemistry to really appreciate everything in here. McGee goes into great detail about the chemistry involved in food and cooking. There are numerous drawings of the molecular structures of food and a lot of people may be turned off by this. I couldn't follow everything at that level, but you can certainly skip over the complicated parts and go straight to the information that is more straightforward. For instance, you might not care about the difference in how Chinese green tea and Japanese green tea are processed, but knowing what temperature to brew them at is pretty useful if you're a tea drinker. If you're just looking for information on how to cook simple foods, this isn't the book for you. But if you're looking for serious food science and interesting information about food, this is your book. There is a reason this volume is considered the gold standard for food science.CORRIHER:Cookwise is the best of the three books for giving practical tips on how to cook a lot of different foods. Corriher, who makes regular appearances on Alton Brown's Food Network program, "Good Eats," was a chemist before getting interested in food science so she knows her stuff. Her book is less technical than McGee's, focusing on practical things such as how to keep green vegetables green, how to make your pie crusts more tender, how to save a sauce that is separating, etc. I have two problems with this book, however. The first is the layout. Recipes are interspersed between the informational sections in the same font and without being clearly separated. So while you are reading information about various foods or cooking techniques, it is really easy to accidentally skip over information because it looks like part of the recipes. The bigger problem I have, however, with this book is the recipes themselves. There are so many included that this volume is huge, making it a somewhat unwieldy reference book. Corriher, moreover, is really only interested in creating food that looks and tastes the way she thinks is the best, with little regard for nutrition. Nearly every recipe in this book contains sugar. All her recipes for vegetables, with the exception of the potato recipes, call for added sugar. Her only real discussion of nutrition has to do with fat. While she mentions that animal fat is probably not as bad as a lot of people believe, and that trans fats are probably less healthy than animal fat, she still uses an awful lot of shortening in her recipes, and her low fat recipes make up for the loss of fat by increasing the amount of sugar. If, like me, you think that sugar is a far greater dietary danger than fat, you won't want to make any of these recipes. Corriher is very mainstream in her ingredients, too. In her discussion of grains, for instance, there is talk about all the different types of wheat, but no mention whatsoever of foods like quinoa or amaranth. The recipes make little use of whole grains. Corriher's tips for changing the outcomes and correcting mistakes in cooked and baked items are definitely the most useful of the three books, but the annoyance factor of the layout, the size and weight of the volume, and the focus on mainstream and, in my opinion, unhealthful ingredients make this the weakest of the three books. Again, however, a lot of people will find this book the most useful. I certainly won't kick it out of my kitchen and I'm happy to have it. It's the most practical of the bunch, even if I find it annoying.BROWN:I should start by mentioning that I'm a huge fan of "Good Eats." If you like that show you will probably like Brown's books. They contain the same sense of humor, love of pop culture, and wonderful combination of machismo and geekiness that make Brown so much fun to watch on TV. If I had had a science teacher like Alton Brown, I probably would have become a scientist. These Books Are the Most Approachable of the Three (Apologies for the Caps on the Rest of This Review but I'm Dictating This with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Which Sucks, and It Won't Stop Doing This). Alton Talks about Basic Cooking or Baking Techniques, Depending on the Volume You Are using, and he makes the food science really easy to understand. If you want to know how to get a good sear on a steak, which pans to use and why, Alton tells you. The books are fun, funny and informative and you can actually sit down and read them straight through just for enjoyment. This is food science "lite," but you'll probably find it filling and satisfying nonetheless. It's the perfect introduction to food science. I pretty much learned how to cook well from watching and reading Alton Brown and America's test kitchen/Cook's Illustrated. (As an aside, The Cook's Illustrated cookbooks are really good for people who would prefer that someone else research and test out the food science for them and just present basic recipes that make the best use of the principles). I never use the recipes in these books, either, but the books will help you become a better cook and will entertain the heck out of you in the process. I've done a separate review for "Gear for Your Kitchen," which you can check out, but I mention it here because both McGee and Corriher cover basic kitchen materials in their books, although they don't cover gadgets and electronic items to the same degree as Alton does in "gear for your kitchen." Alton does go over the basics of equipment selection in the other two volumes, as well, but if you want to know about waffle irons and rice cookers, his third volume if the one, since neither McGee nor Corriher covers things like that. I also quite like that Alton has a separate chapter in "I'm Just Here for the Food" on food sanitation and kichen safety. The book is worth the price for that chapter alone. Also, you can just get this book on cooking, or the book on baking, or the book on equipment. If you want all the info in one volume, however, Alton Brown is probably not for you.Hope this helps if you're trying to decide between the three books. Happy cooking! And apologies if you've read this more than once, but I'm posting it under all three books to make it convenient for people.
This is a must for every kitchen. I buy it to add to bridal shower and wedding gifts! Yes, as some reviewers have said, Harold McGee's books are fabulous, but they are more in depth and hardcore food science. I find that the majority of people need Shirley's book. It not only explains the why and how, but gives you recipes to follow. She explains, for example, why you shock green vegetables in cold water, or in detail how to get the perfect biscuit or cake. There is one of the best cookery books ever written. I believe it's an industry standard and a must have for every kitchen library!
For an ordinary home cook like me who loves to putter around in the kitchen, this book is an essential kitchen resource to help understanding ingredients for delicious foods. It has been enjoyable reading and cooking by as well. The book contains by far more food science information than a standard cookbook although it does have hundreds of exquisite and delicious recipes. It helps the cook make sound judgements in the preparation of foods, like what ingredients to use and why, where you can make substitutions and how, and where not, and which measurements are critical to be highly acurate and which can be gauged approximately, and it explains why that is so as well. Shirley O Corriher explains in easy to understand language the chemical reactions that can happen when certain ingredients are combined, what causes these reactions and why you'd want it to be so. She also explains what could go wrong and why, and how to repair an item provided it can be corrected.CookWise is a complete collection of the recipes for everyday food prepratition for a family including partys and other gatherings, from breakfast to lunch all the way to dinner and desert. While it can be read from cover to cover, it does allow the reader to skip around to those segments or recipes of interest without missing important detail, in other words, it's o.k. bake a cake without knowing about cabage. Additonally it provides information what can be prepared ahead and what must be done last minute to have a perfect meal.It has only a few color photos of some of the prepared dishes. Yet, if I could only afford a few cookbooks, this is one I'd want. The other one is by Jaques Pepin.
Harold McGee is great, but probably too technical for those without a background int the sciences. Shirley Corriher does it for ever cook! She brings her funny and charming personality to the book as well. Check out the old Good Eats episodes she appears in on YouTube. A must for my cookbook library
Outstanding book! If you want to know why your cake/bread/roast, etc failed, this is the book to tell you not only why, but how to fix it next time around! Interesting just to read, but good recipes too! Can't say enough good about this book!
First introduced to Shirley Corriher from watching her appearances on Alton Brown's shows. This is a very useful cookbook to add to your collection with a wide selection of recipes. Explains the use and measurement of ingredients and what they do in baking which was helpful to me.
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