- Cookery, Cooking & Food, Gastronomy, Nonfiction
Winner of the 2009 James Beard Book Award for Best Book: Reference and Scholarship Great cooking goes beyond following a recipe--it's knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them.
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Warm, contemporary, earnest and spare.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Karen Page
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 380
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company, Little Brown & Company
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781306769853
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