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Things Cooks Love: Implements, Ingredients, Recipes
by Sur La Table, Marie Simmons
ISBN-10: 0740769766
ISBN-13: 9780740769764
ISBN-13: 9780740769764
Region: USA
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication Date: April, 2008
Publishers Information
About Things Cooks Love: Implements, Ingredients, Recipes
Publisher Web Link: http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/
Things Cooks Love is a true celebration of food—more than 300 pages packed with wonderful recipes from around the world plus tips, techniques and in-depth looks at ingredients, tools, cookware and more. From selecting the perfect chef’s knife to preparing Cornish hens al mattone, if you love to cook, this book will become the cornerstone of your global kitchen. A sampling of recipes you’ll find in the book:
* Pizza with Radicchio, Pears, Gorgonzola, and Walnuts
* Chicken, Shrimp and Chorizo Paella
* Lamb Tagine with Artichoke Hearts, Dried Apricots and Preserved Lemons
* Many, many more...
Highlights include:
Equipping your Kitchen
Cooks know having fun in the kitchen depends on having the right tool for every task. Things Cooks Love opens with comprehensive lists of basic cookware and tools. It’s an ideal reference for equipping your kitchen, expanding your collection or simply learning more about the tools you already have.
The Global Kitchen
An ultimate wish list for the passionate cook, Things Cooks Love helps take your kitchen to a new level of global sophistication. You’ll find comprehensive looks at the implements of global cuisines, detailed lists of essentials you’ll want in the pantry for a culinary tour, plus delicious recipes to put it all together.
Recipes, Tips & Techniques
Things Cooks Love is packed with invaluable recipes and wisdom to help make cooking easier and more fun. From the best way to peel a tomato or clarify butter to inspirational quotes and advice from trusted experts, discover great ways to hone your skills and get more enjoyment out of your time in the kitchen.
Author Information
About Sur La Table
Author Web Link: http://www.surlatable.com/
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About Marie Simmons
Author Web Link: http://www.mariesimmons.com/
Marie Simmons, an award-winning cookbook author, recognized food writer, talented cooking teacher and a lively story teller has made a love of cooking, teaching and writing into a career rich in breadth and scope. Marie is the former senior food editor at Cuisine magazine and test kitchen editor at Woman’s Day magazine. She has a degree in foods and nutrition from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
An experienced cook and recipe developer Marie has helped shape America’s taste for over three decades. Many of Marie’s readers say they consider her a trusted friend in the kitchen as her recipes are easy, but stylish, healthful, and most important, delicious.
Marie wrote a monthly column, Cooking for Health, for Bon Appetit magazine for 18 years and Fresh & Fast, a syndicated newspaper column for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, for 15 years. She currently writes a bi-monthly column, Simmons Sez, for the Bay Area Newspaper Group that appears in 14 newspapers in the greater Bay Area. Her recipes and articles have appeared in over a dozen popular consumer magazines, including Eating Well, Food & Wine, Fitness, Shape, Cooking Light, Ladies Home Journal, The Old Farmer’s Almanac, Modern Maturity, Redbook, Prevention, Cooking Pleasures, and Real Food.
Popular on the cooking school circuit Marie has taught throughout the US including most recently In Good Taste in Portland OR, Cooks Pots and Table Tops in Eugene, OR, Ramekins in Sonoma, CA, and Central Markets in Texas. In 2004 Simmons taught nationwide in 18 Sur La Table cooking schools to promote her latest cookbook, FIG HEAVEN. In 2008 she traveled again to 11 Sur La Table cooking schools and made dozens of radio and TV appearances to help promote THINGS COOKS LOVE: IMPLEMENTS, INGREDIENTS, RECIPES (Andrews McMeel Publishers April 2008), the first cookbook from Sur La Table, the trusted cookware retailer, From January 2005 to January 2006 Simmons took a break from writing and worked as Culinary Programs Manager at COPIA: THE AMERICAN CENTER FOR WINE, FOOD, AND THE ARTS in Napa, CA. In 2007 and 2008 Marie was a guest instructor at La Cocina que Canta the beautiful new cooking school at the renowned fitness and spa resort, Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico.
Marie has authored (and co-authored) over 20 cookbooks. 365 WAYS TO COOK PASTA (Harper & Row, 1988), still a popular favorite among many cooks, has over 500,000 copies in print. THE GOOD EGG (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) won the James Beard Award. LIGHTER, QUICKER, BETTER (co authored with Richard Sax), won both the Julia Child and James Beard cookbook awards, the culinary equivalent of two gold medals. Another cookbook, THE LIGHT TOUCH was nominated for both of these awards, as well. Marie wrote the Beans and Grains Chapter for the NEW JOY OF COOKING (Scribner 1997). She is the writer on the first cookbook from Sur La Table, THINGS COOKS LOVE: IMPLEMENTS, INGREDIENTS, RECIPES (April 2008)
Simmons is also the author of:
A to Z BAR COOKIES (Chapters, 1994)
A TO Z MUFFINS (Chapters, 1995)
A TO Z PANCAKES (Chapters, 1997)
A TO Z PUDDINGS (Chapters, 1999).
HOLIDAY CELEBRATIONS (Williams-Sonoma, 1998)
COOKIES (Williams-Sonoma, 2002)
FRESH & FAST (Chapters, 1996 and re-issued by Houghton Mifflin 2004)
ITALIAN LIGHT COOKING (Putnam Publishing, 1992)
RICE, THE AMAZING GRAIN (Henry Holt and Company, 1991)
THE AMAZING WORLD OF RICE (William Morrow, 2003)
ESSENTIALS OF HEALTHFUL COOKING (Williams-Sonoma 2004)
FIG HEAVEN (William Morrow, May, 2004)
MASTERING SOUPS & STEWS (William-Sonoma 2005)
Marie has made hundreds of radio and TV appearances including: View from the Bay on CBS, CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, CNN Cooking 101, TV Food Network with Sara Moulton, Home Matters on Discovery, The Main Ingredient, and At Home on Lifetime. Marie receives many invitations for guest appearances and spokesperson positions. An excellent presenter and a well respected culinary expert, Simmons has been a guest speaker for the following organizations: The Rice Federation, The International Association of Cooking Professionals, The Symposium for Professional Food Writers at The Greenbrier, Bon Appetit Health Fair Seminars, The California Almond Board, and The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
Cookbooks by Marie Simmons
Recipe Index
Recipe index coming soon.