Michael Ruhlman

"In Grocery, bestselling author Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America's relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it--the grocery store. In a culture obsessed with food--how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what is good for us--there are often more questions than answers. Ruhlman proposes that the best practices for consuming wisely could be hiding in plain sight--in the aisles...

Explores different ways to make ten different recipes perfectly.

Presents twenty basic elements of cooking and explains their importance in order to become a better cook, from proper salting techniques to mastering such basic ingredients as eggs and butter.

Ruhlman shares the secrets of roasting, one of the most elemental culinary techniques. The term originally referred to cooking over an open fire, and has evolved to describe the cooking of meat, vegetables, and even fruit in an oven, a dry-heat method of making things irresistibly appealing. He showcases a wide range of roasting methods, designed to help you get the most out of your oven.

In his three novellas, "In Short Measures," "Strong Conspirators," and "Sally Forth," Michael Ruhlman delves deeply into the nuanced complexity of romantic and sexual love-and the inevitable evolution of the heart over the span of years and decades. Each novella asks questions about the nature of love in terms of loyalty and fidelity-what are one's obligations toward one's spouse, one's family, and one's heart? In the first novella, "In Short Measures,"...

In addition to providing 125 classic recipes for sausages, terrines, and pates, the authors expand the definition of "charcuterie" to include anything preserved or prepared ahead such as Mediterranean olive and vegetable rillettes, duck confit, and pickles and sauerkraut.

IACP Award Winner 2019 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the acclaimed French Laundry restaurant in the Napa Valley-"the most exciting place to eat in the United States" (The New York Times). The most transformative cookbook of the century celebrates this milestone by showcasing the genius of chef/proprietor Thomas Keller himself. Keller is a wizard, a purist, a man obsessed with getting it right. And this, his first cookbook, is every bit...

Thomas Keller, chef/proprieter of Napa Valley's French Laundry, is passionate about bistro cooking. He believes fervently that the real art of cooking lies in elevating to excellence the simplest ingredients, that bistro cooking embodies at once a culinary ethos of generosity, economy, and simplicity, that the techniques at its foundation are profound, and the recipes at its heart have a powerful ability to nourish and please. For Keller, great cooking...