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The Williams-Sonoma Cookbook: The Essential Recipe Collection for Today's Home Cook

By Chuck Williams (Editor)
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Overview
Presents a compendium of 370 recipes that encompass a variety of courses and ingredients, with separate sections for such categories as appetizers, salads, pasta, fish, poultry, beef, vegetables, breads, and desserts.

Publishers Description
Cooking today is multidimensional: it's about creating soul-warming comfort food for friends and family; making healthy, flavorful meals in a limited amount of time; inviting the flavors of ethnic cuisines into our kitchens; and preparing tasty, sumptuous meals for holidays and special occasions. The increasing availability of high-quality, local, and exotic ingredients has transformed the way we cook with delicious results. This comprehensive volume, with its tremendous breadth of recipes, reflects this new diverse interest in food. Among its more than 370 recipes are time-tested classics, fresh new favorites gleaned from restaurant menus, popular ethnic dishes customized for the home cook, and dozens of breakfast and dessert choices, from the simple to the spectacular. In short, The Williams-Sonoma Cookbook celebrates the pleasures of cooking in all its forms.

Whether you are stir-frying a spicy basil-scented chicken dish for a simple weeknight supper, grilling fish steaks for a summer cookout, preparing a standing rib roast as the centerpiece for a multicourse special-occasion meal, or simply looking for a recipe for classic chocolate chip cookies or the ultimate cheesecake, this book is the perfect resource. The recipes are organized into twelve chapters so you can easily find the right dish for your needs. These include: Appetizers; Soups; Salads; Fish and Shellfish; Poultry; Beef and Veal; Pork and Lamb; Vegetables; Breads; Desserts; and Breakfast and Brunch. Sumptuous photographs for every recipe will show you how the finished dish should look. Dozens of photographed sidebars throughout the book illuminate cooking techniques, explain how to work with unfamiliar ingredients, and suggest flavorful sauces or condiments to accompany the main recipe.

Among the recipes are classics that you will come back to again and again, like stuffed mushrooms, Cobb salad, potato gratin, Louisiana-style gumbo, bistro-style roast chicken, eggs Benedict, and devil's food cake. You will also find many dishes inspired by international flavors, such as pot stickers, gazpacho, tabbouleh, carnitas, tandooristyle chicken and tiramisu -- all destined to become new favorites in your home. Look, too, for plenty of kid-friendly recipes such as baked macaroni and cheese, chicken potpie, spaghetti and meatballs, and chocolate brownies, all of which could become some of the most-requested dishes in your cooking repertory.

In addition to the recipes, a comprehensive reference section in the back of the cookbook offers dozens of the basic recipes you'll need for stocks and sauces, bread, pasta, and pie doughs, and dessert sauces and frostings. Also included are a full glossary of cooking terms and ingredients as well as cooking charts that will make it easy for you to find ingredient substitutes, doneness temperatures for meat and poultry, measurement equivalents, and more.

No matter the occasion, The Williams-Sonoma Cookbook will provide the perfect recipe and plenty of inspiration for many years to come.



Item Specifications...


Pages   464
Dimensions:   Length: 1.5" Width: 8.5" Height: 10.5"
Weight:   4.1 lbs.
Binding  Hardcover
Release Date   Oct 21, 2008
ISBN  1416575928  
ISBN13  9781416575924  


Availability  6 units.
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Reviews - What do customers think about The Williams-Sonoma Cookbook: The Essential Recipe Collection for Today's Home Cook?

So many recipes!  Dec 30, 2009
This book is full of fabulous looking recipes, and all of them have a picture! That is a key factor in my choosing cookbooks, and this one really comes up on top. To me, the recipes really are "essentials," at least most of them. There are some obscure ones, but that's just the same for almost any cookbook. This one is great!
 
I have a copy and plan on buying one for each of my daughters  Oct 19, 2009
I love this cookbook. I have 3 shelves of cookbooks/culinary magazines. I kid you not. It is what I do for a living! This is the most well rounded informative cookbook I have seen in years. I intend to give my daughters each a copy for Christmas.
 
Many great recipes  Sep 11, 2009
I ordered this book because I wanted to improve upon my cooking skills! This book has many great recipes to try and even modify to our liking. The recipes are easy to follow. If you're looking for a staple cookbook, this is it!
 
Cookbook review  Jun 1, 2009
This was a gift. the bride to be reports that she has already used it, and it was an awesome recipe!!!
 
beware of certain recipes in cookbook:)  May 15, 2009
I made two recipes in the cookbook. I followed the recipes word for word and instructions that were provided. First one was pumkin pie on page 380 section desserts; recipe tasted terrible- center filling was soggy & pumkin didn't have any flavor whatsoever. I wouldn't defiently make this again, very poor recipe. Second, one was fish & chips on page 150 section fish & shellfish i personally didn't like the flavor and appearance of the finished dish; it was soggy and batter was raw. In my opinion Williams & Sonoma products the ones i've purchased are far better than their cookbooks. I'll get rid of this book altogether, I'm better off without it. As with any cookbook the writer, author or whoever writes these cookbooks don't give the public their "secret" recipes, that's the way it is they keep them to themselves. Final word in a good way, what's the purpose of making or preparing anything in this cookbook if unhappy with results.
 

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