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Title

• On Food and Cooking

Author

• Harold McGee

Publisher

• Scribner

On Food and Cooking

The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

Overview

From the publisher

Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking is a kitchen classic. Hailed by Time magazine as “a minor masterpiece” when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is the bible to which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn for an understanding of where our foods come from, what exactly they’re made of, and how cooking transforms them into something new and delicious.

For its 20th anniversary, McGee prepared a revised and updated edition of On Food and Cooking, rewriting the text almost completely, expanding it by two-thirds, and commissioning more than 100 new illustrations. As compulsively readable and engaging as ever, the new On Food and Cooking provides countless eye-opening insights into food, its preparation, and its enjoyment.

On Food and Cooking pioneered the translation of technical food science into cook-friendly kitchen science and helped give birth to the inventive culinary movement known as “molecular gastronomy.”