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title: "Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes"
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# Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes

**Brand:** harold mcgee
**Price:** R145
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- **What is this?** Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes by harold mcgee
- **How much does it cost?** R145 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    The clarity and elegance of real mastery
  

*by P***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2018*

Don't hesitate to buy this book if you like Harold McGee, or cooking science generally. Whatever unhappy reviews you see here have completely mistaken the nature of the project. This is a pellucid distillation of McGee's knowledge about cooking, where every word is made to tell. It's something few writers could ever have managed. The section on vinaigrettes explains several more aspects of how they work, why you make them as you do, and how they might be injured and repaired than J. Kenji López-Alt's equivalent section of The Food Lab does, in a tenth as many words.So it's not rambling, discursive, anecdotal, or overlong, and the prose soars only a little, here and there, mainly at the chapter starts. But read with attention, it casts a delicious spell of clarity, and regularly achieves the goal of all true explanations: to make the familiar, strange. McGee has packed this beautifully designed book with thousands of little insights and pieces of advice that will make you cook better. It's a delight.My only dissatisfaction with the hardcover is that I wish the dust jacket had been reproduced on the surface of the book itself, and that the surface was glossy, to make it feel more like the kitchen-based book it is than a standard nonfiction offering (and that it had a sewn, not a glued, binding, as so many cookbooks do, for durability). But none of Penguin Press's books have those features, and as regular hardcover books go, it is very pleasingly printed, with thick, luxurious paper.

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    Good Resource for Some Kitchens
  

*by L***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2020*

I'm a big, big fan of Harold McGee and his famous volume "On Food and Cooking."  Over the years I've bought a few copies of that book.  I thought that "Keys to Good Cooking" would be a blend of the discussions from his earlier work with practical recipes or techniques.  In a way it is just that.  For someone who wouldn't enjoy his other work this is an extensive list of tips and techniques that will be very useful in the kitchen.

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    Brilliant pick-and-choose cooking technique book
  

*by R***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2020*

I read this like I read computer books: go to the sections that are applicable to what you're doing and follow the methods thereof. Author even recommends this!

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