Taste!: How to Choose the Best Deli Ingredients

Product Description TASTE! How to Choose the Best Deli Ingredients is an all-embracing, comprehensive handbook of speciality ingredient information, from salt and pepper through olive oil to charcuterie; it not only tells you what an ingredient is and what it should look and taste like, it also tells you what it goes with and how to use it. It is exhaustive in its scope. There are chapters on Beans, Peas and Pulses, Bread and Baking, Charcuterie, Chocolate, Chutneys, Ferments and Pickles, Coffee, Dairy including Cheese, Fish, Fish Eggs and Seafood, Fruit, Vegetables, Nuts, Dried Mushrooms and Sea Vegetables, Grains including Pasta, Herbs, Spices and Natural Flavourings, Oils, Olives, Sauces, Sugars, Syrups and Honey, Tea and Herbal Teas, and Vinegars. With plenty of wit and anecdotes from a life spent travelling, cooking on TV, and writing for magazines and newspapers, Glynn’s TASTE! is a work of reference you’ll end up reading like a novel. In his Introduction he says ‘ingredient knowledge means kitchen power. It means you know what goes with what and how to make something much more delicious in far less time. TASTE! even answers the questions you didn’t know you should have asked, and is an ingredient handbook that makes every cookbook work.’ About the Author Best known in Britain as a pioneering and innovative BBC TV and radio chef, New Zealand-born Glynn Christian is also an acclaimed food journalist, lecturer, public speaker and the author of over 25 books mainly about food and cookery. His book Real Flavours the handbook of gourmet & deli ingredients was described by Nigel Slater as ‘one of only ten books you need’. Since 1982 he’s made over 1000 live broadcasts for BBC TV including Breakfast Time and Pebble Mill, and on radio he was a regular guest of Woman’s Hour. His UK journalistic career includes writing weekly for The Sunday Telegraph for four years for which he was nominated for Glenfiddich Food Writer of the Year, Elle, for five years and magazines such as OK, House and Gardens, and Gardens Illustrated. He co-founded the iconic Mr Christian’s Provisions on Portobello Road, helped found the UK Guild of Food Writers, named the Great Taste Awards and is the holder of a prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Guild of Good Food.