Tools & Techniques

by Williams Sonoma, Chuck Williams (Editor), Jennifer Newens (Editor)

Williams-Sonoma Tools & Techniques is your road map to cooking success. A comprehensive guide to basic tools and equipment for the home kitchen, with special features explaining the differences among cookware materials and a primer on cutlery styles and uses, and a step-by-step tutorial on key cooking tasks--cutting vegetables into a variety of shapes; boning and skinning a chicken breast; filling and frosting a layer cake and moreit is a must-have for every kitchen.Also included are more than 50 recipe staples: perfect poached salmon, classic roast chicken, homemade chicken and beef stock, and dozens of vinaigrettes and sauces. Even when using a recipe from another cookbook, Williams-Sonoma Tools & Techniqueswill be your guide to scores of kitchen tasks. With friendly explanations of 250 techniques, 200 tools, and over 1500 full-color photographs, whether you are anovice inthe kitchen or a seasoned home cook, this book is the ultimate source of kitchen wisdom.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Cuisine

350 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2005

About the author

In 1947 Chuck Williams arrived in Sonoma, CA with the idea of building homes—first as a contractor, later as the owner of a hardware shop and finally as the founder of the first Williams-Sonoma store for cooks. Half a century later that small cookware shop has evolved into a multi-billion dollar retailing leader whose products encompass every room in the home.

Reviews

[Santiago Torres Z · Rating 5 out of 5]

Este libro fue uno de mis primeros referentes en gastronomía, la facil descripción además de la guía fotografica lo hacen un impresindible para todos los que quieran introducirse a la cocina.
De mis favoritos, y referente frecuente ante cualquier duda de las tecnicas basicas.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

a great kitchen basic to help me understand the best technique to do anything w/, and how to use the tools best around the kitchen. also great recipes, great pictures, and it's a great book to pick up, learn something in 5 minutes, and put down again. not a cover to cover in order to learn anything book. I love it! great gift for any level of cook - thanks Gramma!

[Carly Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent reference book for those who cook! Identifies those weird kitchen gadgets you never knew