Timing is Everything - Softcover

Piccolo, Jack

 
9780609802076: Timing is Everything

Synopsis

A chef's guide to the all-important timing of certain foods covers a wide variety of dishes with advice on everything from the proper thickness of a grilled lamb chop to storing leftovers. Original. 20,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Jack Piccolo has added to his cooking skills while traveling throughout the world and spending his summers in Italy. He has worked as an illustrator, designer and creative director at the advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach and as a director in his own film company, Story Piccolo Guliner. Today he is writing screenplays and a novel and lives in New York City.

From the Inside Flap

ldn't be a research project, forcing you to read through recipes to find answers to the simplest of questions: How long? Now, Timing Is Everything, the ultimate guide to timing and storage, provides easy answers at a glance.

Author Jack Piccolo has assembled chart after chart offering invaluable, at-your-fingertips cooking times for grains, fruits and vegetables, meat, poultry, fish, sausage, even nuts! Taking into consideration size, weight, and thickness, each food's cooking time is listed alongside brief, easy-to-follow instructions on each particular cooking method. In an instant, you can find, for example, how long to broil a piece of salmon, toast pine nuts, or boil fettuccine (fresh or dried). In addition, general directions on cooking methods--from baking to deep-frying to stir-frying--and sections on storing and freezing foods are included for quick reference.

Separate chapters on microwaving, pressure cooking, and storing foods supply import

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