The tastes and smells of a roadside smokehouse, without ever striking a matchKeep the same robust fragrance and distinct taste of an old-school wood smoker and bypass the hassle with the simple touch of a button. The Electric Smoking Cookbook for Beginners covers the terminology, techniques, and fundamentals of smoking, along with 100 mouthwatering recipes that will quickly take you from a novice to a smoking master.Learn the tips and tricks every ...

Gourmet restaurateur and vegan food expert Miyoko Schinner shares her secrets for making homemade nondairy cheeses that retain all the complexity and sharpness of their dairy counterparts while incorporating nutritious nuts and plant-based milks. Miyoko shows how to tease artisan flavors out of unique combinations of ingredients, such as rejuvelac and nondairy yogurt, with minimal effort. The process of culturing and aging the ingredients produces delectable vegan cheeses with a range of c...

**Turn your kitchen into the world's best bakery with this collection of 200 sweet and savory baking recipes from the James Beard Award-winning team at Milk Street."Comprehensive [and] extraordinarily useful." —Booklist, starred review**The American baking repertoire may be unparalleled in our claim to pies, biscuits, and cakes. But step off a plane in London, Mexico City, Istanbul, or Paris, and you realize how much more there we can learn about the art of simple,...

Discover the art of pickling with this step-by-step guide for beginnersPickling and fermenting are time-tested preservation methods that allow you to transform everyday garden produce into a medley of flavorful, healthy foods. With the Beginner's Guide to Pickling, you'll find everything you need to create delicious pickles of your own. It's filled with advice, illustrations, and troubleshooting tips to ensure success—plus a collection of mouthwatering pic...

ATK revolutionizes small-batch baking with innovative techniques, flexible equipment options, and 200+ big-flavor recipes.ATK cuts sweet and savory treats down to size while cutting out the small-batch baking quirks in this exciting cookbook for two: no calculators to scale recipes, no measuring out half an egg, no buying a container of an ingredient to use just a tablespoon, no stale leftovers, no kitchen full of required equipment. ATK's small-batch baking way:

Master the old-fashioned art of "putting food by" with easy DIY recipes for jam, jellies, and marmalades. "A remarkable culinary windfall." —Charlie Trotter, James Beard Award–winning chefGourmet Preserves Chez Madelaine shows a new generation of home cooks the age-old craft of preserving fruit. In addition, author and French cooking instructor extraordinaire Madelaine Bullwinkel includes dozens of recipes for muffins, scones, crepes, puddings, pastries, de...

Capturing the peak flavor of freshly harvested produce and preserving it for year-round eating is easier than ever, with this ultimate guide to freezing and enjoying fruits and vegetables.“Invaluable information about the art of freezing—a must-have homesteading resource!” ?—Deanna Talerico, creator of Homestead and ChillAuthor Crystal Schmidt's time-tested preparation techniques ensure that color, texture, and fla...

Baking demystified with 450 foolproof recipes from Cook's Illustrated, America's most trusted food magazine.The Cook’s Illustrated Baking Book has it all—definitive recipes for all your favorite cookies, cakes, pies, tarts, breads, pizza, and more, along with kitchen-tested techniques that will transform your baking. Recipes range from easy (drop cookies and no-knead bread) to more ambitious (authentic croissants and dacquoise) and the tra...

The only Dutch oven cookbook you’ll ever need—with 150 recipes for delicious one pot meals, plus expert-approved product recommendations and Dutch oven cooking hacks!A Dutch oven is the most versatile pot in your kitchen: a soup pot, a deep fryer, a braiser, a roaster, an enclosed bread oven, and the perfect vessel for one pot meals. So don’t push your Dutch oven to the back of the cabinet—learn how to put it to work every day in 150 delicious recipes!Turn ...

The ultimate baking book for everyone from best-selling author and "diva of desserts" Rose Levy BeranbaumIn this essential dessert cookbook of no-fuss recipes everyone should know, trusted baking expert Rose Levy Beranbaum guides you through every recipe for can’t-fail results—with a streamlined, simplified approach perfect for baking for beginners, featuring more than 600 mouthwatering and instructive photos. Whether you're a baking enthusiast or just want to whip...

The perfect follow up to Food in Jars: More seasonal canning in smaller bites!If most canning recipes seem to yield too much for your small kitchen, Preserving by the Pint has smaller—but no less delicious—batches to offer. Food writer and cooking teacher Marisa McClellan discovered that most "vintage" recipes are written to feed a large family, or to use up a farm-size crop, but increasingly, found that smaller batches suited her life better. Work...

Meat: A Kitchen Education is award-winning author James Peterson’s guide for carnivores, with more than 175 recipes and 550 photographs that offer a full range of meat and poultry cuts and preparation techniques, presented with Peterson’s unassuming yet authoritative style.Instruction begins with an informative summary of meat cooking methods: sautéing, broiling, roasting, braising, poaching, frying, stir-frying, grilling, smoking, and barbecuing. Then, ch...