Recent Reading
Over the weekend, a quick stop at the Strand yielded a treastured find: I'm Just Here For the Food: Cooking by Alton Brown. Alton is my favorite FoodTV personality; his exciting and fun cooking show Good Eats never fails to entertain.
Anyway, the book reads just like his show. That is to say, its fun reading and easy to learn about cooking while offering tons of tidbits I can't get enough of. Like the fact that salt is the most mentioned food in the bible. But don't be fooled, there is tons of other actually useful stuff too. The whole book is about heat and its application to food, so there is some real science there.
Meanwhile though, I haven't been able to stop reading, except for occasional "work" and "shower" [books after all, don't hold up in water].
But now I want to finish reading it and get the other books Alton has on Baking and Kitchen Gear.
Relevant:
AltonBrown.com
Anyway, the book reads just like his show. That is to say, its fun reading and easy to learn about cooking while offering tons of tidbits I can't get enough of. Like the fact that salt is the most mentioned food in the bible. But don't be fooled, there is tons of other actually useful stuff too. The whole book is about heat and its application to food, so there is some real science there.
Meanwhile though, I haven't been able to stop reading, except for occasional "work" and "shower" [books after all, don't hold up in water].
But now I want to finish reading it and get the other books Alton has on Baking and Kitchen Gear.
Relevant:
AltonBrown.com
Labels: Gastronomy
2 Comments:
I agree. Alton rules. I just love him in his new post as the announcer in kitchen stadium on Iron Chef. He knows everything there is to know about the most out there foods and ways to cook them.
When hosting Iron Chef, Alton also interacts with the chefs in real time-- so all the facts he tosses out are not scripted-- he's pulling that information out of his head.
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