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You find more of the problem when you read the comments on the post. What America lacks are curious learners, what it has plenty of are 'experts' and fearful n
by brm 17y ago
You find more of the problem when you read the comments on the post. What America lacks are curious learners, what it has plenty of are 'experts' and fearful novices.
- tptacek 17y agoWhich means you should love Ruhlman; his current major book is an anticookbook, containing the ratio kernels of important recipes (X:Y fat/meat = sausage; X:Y:Z flour/butter/salt = cookie) from which you can just improvise your own dishes. His blog is also excellent. For instance, duck confit from his blog: take 2 duck legs, salt them, stick 'em in ziploc bags overnight, rinse them, cook them for long time in a pot of olive oil, cool and store. Missing from that recipe: $40 worth of duck fat, complicated curing recipe, ceramic crock stored under basement stairs.