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Ingredient: Unveiling the Essential Elements of Food | Ali Bouzari
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In this entertaining, informative guide, one of the leading experts in culinary sciencea chef, consultant, and scientist who has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, from Thomas Keller to Daniel Hummpaints a portrait of each of the fundamental building blocks of food, giving all cooks a way to visualize and respond to whats really happening in the pan. There are ingredients, and then there are Ingredients. An ingredient is a tomato, a tortilla, or some tarragon. An Ingredient (with a capital "I") is a fundamental building block or recurring theme that works behind the scenes in everything we cook. There are millions of ingredients, but only eight Ingredients: Water, Sugars, Carbs, Lipids, Proteins, Minerals, Gases, and Heat. Each Ingredient has its own personality, a set of things it does or doesnt do. Ever been blown away by a wonderfully fragrant dish? From soup and mashed potatoes to French toast and barbecue, lipids act like glue to stick aromas to your food. Is a batter too thin or sauce not clinging correctly? The best bets for thickening any liquid are carbs and proteins, which we can find anywhere from a bag of flour to a roasted garlic clove or a piece of braised meat. This book teaches you the personalities of the Ingredients, where to find them, and how to put them to work. Ingredient isnt a book of recipes, nor is it a definitive treatise on the science of the kitchen. Its an illustrated guide to visualizing and controlling foods invisible moving parts, regardless of your skill level or how you like to cook. Through this lively, engaging, and accessible guide, renowned culinary scientist Ali Bouzari shifts our focus from secret ingredients to the secrets of Ingredients.
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My all time favorite foodie book has to be Ingredient by Ali Bouzari. The science behind why foods cook the way they do was so amazing to me. #24in48 @24in48
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These are my favorite spots at home. Most of my pictures are from Mi kitchen spot. Besides any cozy coffee place works. #riotgrams #day2 #whereiread #bookriot

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#BookNDinner! #SunBasket edition. Seared teriyaki tuna and forbidden black rice donburi, with roasted diced sweet potatoes, sliced radish bathed in lime juice, shredded nori, and toasted sesame seeds. Mmmm! (Made something else entirely for @MrBook 😉) This has been another production of #MrBookBookBabeKitchen. Happy reads & happy eats!😋Here's a discount for SunBasket, if you'd like to try it: https://www.sunbasket.com/3free/Jen375879

PatienceFortitude What is the prep time and effort like for sun basket? 7y
Donna_sBookMinute It looks really delicious. 7y
TheBookAddict 💕😋 7y
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BookBabe @PatienceFortitude I'd say it's about the same amount of prep time and effort as any other similar service—Plated, Blue Apron, etc. SunBasket saves you a little time by often providing sauce base that they make for you. They tell you what's in it and you add additional fresh ingredients, like lime zest and juice, etc. 7y
MrBook 😍😍😍 7y
bedandabook Loving your recent meals. And I'm off my food at the moment, so that's really saying something! 7y
Jinjer Just placed a sunbasket order with your code! Thank u! 7y
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#BookNDinner! All-organic & sustainable #SunBasket edition. This feast this chilly winter evening is comprised of: shrimp skewers drizzled with salsa verde on a bed of jasmine rice, alongside spiced jicama salad with herbs. Yum! 😋This has been another presentation of: #MrBookBookBabeKitchen. Happy reads & happy eats! 😊 If you'd like a discount to try SunBasket, here's the link: https://www.sunbasket.com/3free/Jen375879

Craftylikefox So pretty and I bet delicious! Looks like a very interesting book too!! 7y
LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 7y
MyNamesParadise Omg the shrimp 😍😍😍😍😍😍 7y
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#BookNDinner! #SunBasket edition! Accompaniment this calm evening: Kyoto chicken with soba noodle salad made with buckwheat noodles, kale, lime, and miso sauce, topped with scallion, sprinkled with sesame seeds and drizzled with soy sauce. Yum! This has been another presentation of: #MrBookBookBabeKitchen. Happy reads & happy eats! 😋 If you'd like to try SunBasket, let me know and I'll get you a discount! 100% organic & sustainable. 👍🏻

Sandra Was it as good as it looks? Because it looks fantastic! 7y
MrBook 😋👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😍😍😍 7y
BookBabe @Sandra thank you! I dare say it was! 😋 7y
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Handmade_Redhead I've been checking out meal services and this is the one I'll be doing. 7y
Jinjer My Plated meals come tomorrow! So excited! 7y
LauraBeth This looks delicious! 7y
KellyK Looks wonderfully yummy! 7y
BookBabe @Jinjer yay! I hope you love them! 😋 7y
Jinjer First one was delicious! I'd like to try sunbasket. I have a code if you want to try hello fresh! 7y
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#BookNDinner! #SunBasket edition! Tonight's feast is comprised of: Southeast Asian coconut-poached salmon in a lemongrass coconut-milk broth on a bed of sautéed red chard. Ultra-yum! ? This has been another presentation of: #MrBookBookBabeKitchen. Happy reads & happy eats! ?(SunBasket is all-organic and sustainable. Let me know if you want a discount to try it!)

TheBookAddict Looks yummy! 😋 7y
Reviewsbylola 😍😍😍 7y
MrBook 😍😍😍 7y
Cinfhen Yum @BookBabe 😋😋😋but no way @MrBook tried it! 7y
BookBabe @Cinfhen Sometimes @MrBook lets me feed him healthy food. But he's definitely less of an adventurous eater than I am! 😉 7y
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Review is up! Loved this book! Loved the artwork 😀
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All morning I was doing a home inspection on my new house!! 😱 I'm going to be a homeowner!!! 🏡 I'm excited and nervous but this is going to be great. Finally a larger place for books....right?!? That's what it's all about 😂📚📚📚
#homeowners #firsthome #itsallaboutthebooks #homelibrary

mklong Congratulations!! 🎉🎉🎉 7y
Julsmarshall Congratulations! Yay for more bookshelves 🎊🎉👍🏽😂 7y
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MyNamesParadise Congratulations!! Have your own library!!! 7y
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Much needed!!!

MrBook Ohhhh maaaaan! 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻 7y
Meg11726 I like the little hand swiping a doughnut 😂😂😂😂 7y
mcipher What us on that donut? Looks delicious! 😋 7y
ashsbookmarks @mcipher my husband gets donuts from artesian places, that's are more expensive than I like them to be. But anyways.....that was a pumpkin flavored one with homemade whipped cream and nuts on top. It was pretty good. That other one was a butter and salt....so yum!!! 7y
mcipher @ashsbookmarks Butter and salt? Like a popcorn donut?! That is amazing!! 7y
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Curled up with a hot cup of tea, @MrBook by my side, reading about the chemistry of food so I can enhance my culinary skills, thus continuing in my lifelong quest to ensure that @MrBook is well-fed and cared for. 😊❤️

MrBook 😍😍😍 7y
britt_brooke Loving both views of this post. You guys are super cute, btw. ☺️ 7y
JSW I see no tots on that page. 😢 7y
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NovelGirl82 I love your teacup! What do you have it on? It looks like something that I need! 7y
Zelma Very cool looking book! 7y
Elisa That sounds awesome, I added this to my TBR! Bonus: I can read it with my youngest, who is a total science girl and who repeats back to me bits from thee "science section" of America's Test Kitchen depending on what I'm cooking ? 7y
hgrimes What a neat book!! 7y
DreesReads That book is gorgeous! 7y
Posemn It looks as if @MrBook is a very lucky ( and a bit spoiled) man. 😉 7y
MrBook @Posemn Aye, that 😁👏🏻!!! 7y
BookBabe @NovelGirl82 Thanks! 😊 Yes, you definitely need this:
Mr. Coffee Mug Warmer http://amzn.to/2fAVaat ☕️☕️ I couldn't do without this! I never have to face lukewarm coffee or tea ever again. 😄☕️
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NovelGirl82 Thank you!! I hate when my tea starts going cold because I got too caught up in my book! 7y
BookBabe @NovelGirl82 You're very welcome! That's exactly why I got them for me and @MrBook — we read a lot of great books and so that was happening to us all the time! 😂 7y
LitsyGoesPostal 😎👍🏻 7y
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Beside one another as much as possible 😍. @BookBabe 's bundled up on the comfy chair, enjoying her tea and her recent #bookmail. Figuring out new meals to make our table faaaabulous, darlings. (But how does one improve tater tots?! 😜😂) #LitsyDoesCooking

britt_brooke You guys are fantastic. Obviously, you remind me of my hubby and me. 😉💕💕💕 Lovely photo. 📷👌🏻 7y
MrBook @britt_brooke 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y
audiothing I've found a recipe for tater tots! Can't buy them so l will try making them. The recipe suggests they are a bit like round hash browns 7y
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MrBook @audiothing Those sound like tater crowns (which is the same thing, just a different shape). Tots are like little cylindrical barrels 😊. 7y
BookBabe 😘💕 7y
OrangeMooseReads 😊😊 7y
Zelma Looks like a very cozy evening! Btw, I made tots with my dinner tonight and they were fab. 👍 7y
EnidBiteEm This will be scandalous to you two, but I have never eaten a tater tot. It's not such a thing, down under. Big roast potatoes though, that's another matter... I hope you find some recipes to your liking 😀 7y
Lizpixie Here in Australia they're called potato gems, they're in the freezer section with the frozen chips at woolies. My hubby used to love them! I'm with you @EnidBiteEm crispy roast potatoes with a leg of lamb & gravy. Yum. 7y
missjenniferlowe I just saw a recipe for "totsagna", which is lasagna made with tater tots, and I immediately thought of you! ? 7y
audiothing @MrBook I think making cylinders would be difficult by hand! 7y
LeslieO Tater tots are the perfect food. 7y
MrBook @OrangeMooseReads ???! @Zelma I'm proud of you ???????????!!! @EnidBiteEm ??? #WhatTheDeuce?! You are missing on something heavenly, I tell you! @Lizpixie MMMmmmm ???!!! @missjenniferlowe ??????!!! @audiothing Yeah, harder for sure! @LeslieO ????? #KindredSpirits! If only Denzel had them in "The Book of Eli"! 7y
EnidBiteEm @Lizpixie thanks for the translation 😀 I've never tried a gem either, but lamb roasts? If you ever saw the ad. with Naomi Watts, I would've chosen the roast over Tom Cruise any day 😂 7y
Lizpixie @EnidBiteEm me too! I buy my lamb at a farmers market, slice fresh garlic,cut holes in the lamb & fill with garlic slices & fresh rosemary then rub it with spices,salt&oliveoil, place in a baking dish with an inch of hot oil. An hour later I drain most of the lambs garlic oil into another baking dish for the potatoes, sweet potatoes & pumpkin. Perfection!👌 7y
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I really do love Autumn but it's hard to appreciate it when you live in Southern California. Almost 80 degrees outside and I'm in here drinking pumpkin spice chai tea ☕️

Alfoster I hear you! It's 82 here in San Diego!🌞 7y
BekahB Sigh...it's supposed to get up to 97 in southern Arizona. I'm rebelling and wearing cardigans and boots anyway! 😄 7y
That-Bookish-Hiker Yikes that sucks. It's currently 57° here in Portland, OR. 7y
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Arcana @That-Bookish-Hiker Enjoy the weather! The rest of us are melting!🔥 7y
BlogginBoutBooks I feel ya, @BekahB - I'm melting here in Mesa 😫 7y
Felso Same here in central Texas. 🌿💐🌳☀️=Autumn 7y
tapgurl Hey when I was in Torrance I saw a house decorated with life size comic book figures and painted bright blue and red! Do you know that house? 7y
ashsbookmarks @tapgurl no but that sounds cool!! 7y
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Drinking my Thai tea boba as I think about reading 📖

Megabooks I need to get some boba tea! 7y
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I love fall! These past couple days it has actually felt like fall here in Southern California. But these next couple days it's going to get hotter 😒 This week my sale is fall leaves 🍂🍁 $10 shipped for these 3 bookmarks. Leave me a comment if you like it 😊
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tapgurl Ooh I love these! Do you get leaves like this in So. cal or are they paper leaves? 7y
ashsbookmarks These are paper leaves. But we don't see much color change here ((so sad 😢)) Most of the trees here are evergreens or palm trees. But there is one street that I take on my way from/to work that has the trees that change color ☺️ I love that street in the fall 😌😌 @tapgurl 7y
read.run.travel I love those! 😍 7y
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Got this book as a gift.....for my mom!
Naturally, I have to read it before I give it to her 🤓📚

Linsy I've heard this is good!! Maybe I should buy it for someone as a gift as well ... 😉 7y
Amandajoy But I just decided an hour ago that I don't need any new cookbooks! 😢 7y
ashsbookmarks @Amandajoy it's not a cookbook. It's the science behind cooking. I love to cook and know I can learn a lot from this book 7y
Amandajoy And that just makes it worse, it's like my kryptonite! 🤗If you like cooking & science you should check out the Food Lab cookbook. 7y
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