The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour

The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour
ISBN-10
1846148987
ISBN-13
9781846148989
Category
Cooking
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
2018-03-01
Publisher
Penguin UK
Author
Jenny Linford

Description

The Missing Ingredient is about what makes good food, and the first book to consider the intrinsic yet often forgotten role of time in creating the flavours and textures we love. Written through a series of encounters with ingredients, producers, cooks, shopkeepers and chefs, exploring everything from the brief period in which sugar caramelises, or the days required in the crucial process of fermentation, to the months of slow ripening and close attention that make a great cheddar, or the years needed for certain wines to reach their peak, Jenny Linford shows how, time and again, time itself is the invisible ingredient. From the patience and dedication of many food producers in fields and storehouses around the world to the rapid reactions required of any home cook at the hob, this book allows us to better understand our culinary lives.

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