Charcuterie the craft of salting, smoking, and curing

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruhlman, Michael, 1963-
Other Authors: Polcyn, Brian
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The reason for this food, this book : why we still love and need hand-preserved foods in the age of the refrigerator, the frozen dinner, Domino's pizza and the 24-hour grocery store
  • Recipes for salt-cured food : salt : how the most powerful tool in your kitchen transforms the humble into the sublime
  • Recipes for smoked food : smoke : the exotic seasoning
  • Sausage : the power and the glory : animal fat, salt, and the pig come together in one of the oldest, divine-yet-humble, culinary creations known to humankind
  • Recipes for dry-cured food : the artist and the sausage : techniques and recipes for individualistic, idiosyncratic and temperamental dry-cured meats
  • Pâtés and terrines : the cinderella meat loaf
  • The confit technique : fat : the perfect cooking environment
  • Recipes to accompany charcuterie : sauces and condiments : not optional.