Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Cooks, and Good Food (Paperback)

from kaffles

An excellent book for anyone who is more interested in the science than the superstitious art of cooking. It explains all sorts of things, like why certain materials in cooking implements really do change the final product, and even goes into hard core things like how to void the warranty on your...

from bestem

As a culinary student, I've amassed quite a few cookbooks, and have perused even more on the shelves at school when needing certain recipes. I love my textbooks. When I first get them, I look over them. I read all the sidebars, and tips, and notes, and look for good information, but I don't just ...

from jontseng

Great book for any cook (or non-cook) who asks why but can't be fagged to wade through Harold McGee. A good balance between anecdote, textbook and tidbit.

from stevage

As I slog my way through this book, I continue to find it both dull and disappointing. I think I had expectations of a concise tome of knowledge, summarising lots of the science and methodology of cooking which is left out of recipe books. Instead it's a poorly structured, badly written, self-ind...

from epersonae

I love food science stuff: two things I miss very much from having actual TV is Good Eats and America's Test Kitchen, both of which get into why things work in the kitchen.This book does that, with the extra twist of assuming a (computer) geek audience. It's smart and charming in the process. Lot...