Mastering Sauces: The Home Cook's Guide to New Techniques for Fresh Flavors [Paperback]

Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by the Smart and wide-ranging, with terrific pages of tips and variations. Volland's intent is to get you comfortable with the elements of a good sauce, then set you free in your kitchen&The book is not about the five French mother sauces; oh, they're here, but much more ink in the 450-plus pages is spent on how we cook today, from updating those classics to her endlessly adaptable stir-fry sauce to smart things to do with canned tomatoes. Susans contributions to The Cooking Lab were invaluable. Now shes written a comprehensive guide to learning the fundamentals of sauce-making, taking home cooks on a tour of versatile techniques and international flavors. From the chefs perspective, a dish isnt finished until you sauce it. The recipes in this bookfocused and sensuousare right in tune with the way we eat today. So dont cover up that pristine fillet of wild salmon or those fresh, fat spears of local asparagus you so carefully sourced with a tone-deaf sauce. Try a recipe from this book and elevate your home cooking from ordinary to extraordinary. A smart, lucid, and beautifully written manual for making glorious sauces from around the world. It will educate and inspire both learned sauciers and novices alike. Susan Volland combines science, hedonism, and common sense in this groundbreaking book. So much more than a cookbook, Susan Volland gives home cooks the confidence and knowledge not only to make sauces, but also to create their own. This book is an important addition to every kitchen library. Susan VollandsUS