Gift Guide: Cookbooks & Books About Cooking
By Wendy Kalen
The Complete Meat Cookbook – Bruce Aidells and Denis Kelly
If you love meat, this book is calling your name. It has lots of recipes. But it goes far beyond that and gives tons of information you’ll go back to again and again. Two quick examples: it lists some of the many names one cut of meat has, and what cooking technique is best for a cut of meat.
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The Reason We Love It: My copy is dog-eared because it gives information everyone else shies away from. It gives USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) standards for internal temperatures to which meat should be cooked, but it goes further. It gives temperatures that meat taste better at – invariably they are lower than the USDA’s recommendations. It also says why that’s okay. So go on – have a pork chop that still has some juice and flavor!
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