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The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs |  | Authors: Karen Page, Andrew Dornenburg
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Rating:  100 reviews
Sales Rank: 796
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 392
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 11 x 7.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 0316118400
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9780316118408
ASIN: 0316118400
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
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Winner of the 2009 James Beard Book Award for Best Book: Reference and Scholarship
Great cooking goes beyond following a recipe--it's knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. Drawing on dozens of leading chefs' combined experience in top restaurants across the country, Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg present the definitive guide to creating "deliciousness" in any dish. Thousands of ingredient entries, organized alphabetically and cross-referenced, provide a treasure trove of spectacular flavor combinations. Readers will learn to work more intuitively and effectively with ingredients; experiment with temperature and texture; excite the nose and palate with herbs, spices, and other seasonings; and balance the sensual, emotional, and spiritual elements of an extraordinary meal.Seasoned with tips, anecdotes, and signature dishes from America's most imaginative chefs, THE FLAVOR BIBLE is an essential reference for every kitchen.
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 AMAZING! Perfect title for this book. .. FLAVOR BIBLE September 5, 2010
Drummergyrl
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is AMAZING. I really don't know what more to say that hasn't already been said in the reviews already. I also love the chefs theories on food and flavor in the beginning of the book. Once you figure out how to read it (no worry, there is a chapter on that too), IT ROCKS!
I love this book, even though its not really a book! September 4, 2010
G. Chen (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's more of a compendium of alphabetical listings of foods that are paired together. The format basically goes something like this:
Blueberries
Season: spring-summer
Taste: sour-sweet
Botanical relatives: huckleberries
Weight: light
Volume: quiet-moderate
Techniques: cooked, raw
Tips: Can subtitute huckleberries
allspice
almonds
apricots
bananas
blackberries
butter, unsalted
buttermilk
chocolate, white
CINNAMON
cinnamon basil
cloves...
It is like a book that is a giant index, which refers you to things that can pair well. This book is more for people who have a willingness to experiment. It gives pointers on what other people think might go good with an item, such as blueberries. You have to figure out your own proportions. Of course, responsible cooks probably want to taste the food they serve beforehand anyways. ;)
Very Helpful Reference August 16, 2010
DB
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a home cook that writes a food blog because I wanted to improve my cooking skills and culinary school seemed too expensive with a family to support. I started out following recipes I found online, but lately I've been profiling more original recipes (my own concoctions). This book has definitely allowed me to be more creative in some of the flavor profiles I use by making educated guesses.
The book itself is easy to understand with about 40 pages of background information. It lists hundreds of ingredients, their complementary flavors, taste (i.e. sweet, salty, sour, etc.), function (i.e. cools the dish, warms the dish), weight (density), volume (the strength the flavor of the ingredient), technique (how the ingredient is best cooked), any tips in using the ingredient, flavor affinities (three or more ingredients that work well together), and flavors to avoid.
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Master your tastebuds July 22, 2010
R. Jacobs (Ohio USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great book for helping any level chef pair foods and spices to create dishes. The first three chapters explain how your palate works, how the book works, and how other chefs have used pairing to improve their dishes. The rest of the book is a broken up into foods and lists of spices and foods are listed under the titles.
Flavor made easy July 3, 2010
Brian R. Kile (Mount Morris, MI United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Flavor Bible is a well written and highly detailed book that leads the reader down a road to understanding flavor from somewhere between an artistic viewpoint and a magical experience.
The authors spend an extensive amount of time developing the readers understanding of what flavor really is. Much less time is spent on the clinical side of "cooking something." The latter part of the book is an exhaustive listing of flavor combinations by food, spice/herb, cuisine and more. Not just a few here and there, but numerous listings from multiple cuisines and culinary practices. If you have an ingredient, look it up, you'll find a tremendous wealth of information on ways to bring out its best flavors. All-in-all, this book should be on the shelves of every foodie right next to your most inspired cookbooks.
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