Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, With Recipes

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Rekindling love for misunderstood culinary fats.

If you've ever felt guilty relishing in rich, flavorful dishes, "Fat" by Jennifer McLagan will liberate your taste buds. McLagan's passionate expertise demystifies the use of fats in cooking, turning them into stars with recipes that will add depth to your home dining experience. It's a culinary adventure that invites you to savor the richness while appreciating the cultural and historical significance of cooking fats.

  • James Beard Foundation Cookbook of the Year (2009)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, With Recipes

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ISBN: 9781580089357
Authors: Jennifer McLagan
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Date of Publication: 2008-09-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Food & Drink
Related Topics: Cooking, Food, Food and Drink, Culinary
Goodreads rating: 4.18
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A rich and unapologetic celebration of this luscious food. For all of history, minus the last thirty years, fat has been at the center of human diets and cultures. When scientists theorized a link between saturated fat and heart disease, industry, media, and government joined forces to label fat a greasy killer, best avoided. But according to Jennifer McLagan, not only is our fat phobia overwrought, it also hasn’t benefited us in any way. Instead it has driven us into the arms of trans fats and refined carbohydrates, and fostered punitive, dreary attitudes toward food–that wellspring of life and pleasure. In Fat, McLagan sets out with equal parts passion, scholarship, and appetite to win us back to a healthy relationship with animal fats. She starts by defusing fat’s bad rap, both reminding us of what we already know–that fat is fundamental to the flavor of our food–and enlightening us with the many ways fat (yes, even animal fat) is indispensable to our health. Mostly, though, Fat is about pleasures–the satisfactions of handling good ingredients skillfully, learning the cultural associations of these primal foodstuffs, recollecting and creating personal memories of beloved dishes, and gratifying the palate and the soul with fat’s irreplaceable savor. Fat lavishes the reader with more than 100 recipes from simple to intricate, classic to contemporary
 

Rekindling love for misunderstood culinary fats.

If you've ever felt guilty relishing in rich, flavorful dishes, "Fat" by Jennifer McLagan will liberate your taste buds. McLagan's passionate expertise demystifies the use of fats in cooking, turning them into stars with recipes that will add depth to your home dining experience. It's a culinary adventure that invites you to savor the richness while appreciating the cultural and historical significance of cooking fats.

  • James Beard Foundation Cookbook of the Year (2009)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.