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50 foods : the essentials of good taste with notes on wine / Edward Behr.

by Behr, Edward, 1951-

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The Penguin Press, 2013.

Food -- Anecdotes.

Food and wine pairing.

Food writers -- Anecdotes.

9781594204517 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Fifty foods : the essentials of good taste with notes on wine

xiii, 416 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The definitive guide to the foods every food lover must know. A culinary guidebook, 50 Foods presents simple, practical information about buying, using, preparing, and enjoying. Behr focuses on aroma, appearance, flavor, and texture to determine what "the best" means for each food. He tells you how to select top quality--signs of freshness and ripeness, best season, top varieties, proper aging. If the way to prepare, serve, or eat something is little known, then he explains it (how to open an oyster, why the best way to cook green beans is boiling, how to clean a whole salted anchovy, when to eat and when to discard the rind of a cheese). Behr also names the most complementary foods and flavors for each of these fifty marvelous foods and the wines that go with them. The fifty selections provide a broad sensory range for the modern gourmet. Most of the foods are raw materials, but some have been fermented or otherwise transformed--into bread, ham, cheese. Six of the fifty are cheeses. As Behr explains, cheese is probably the best food, as wine is the best drink. Behr argues that food tastes more delicious when it is closer to nature. Skilled low technology is almost always superior to high technology. But with scientific insight, the old methods can be refined to achieve more consistent high quality. We can't always have the best, but with the information in this book we can eat better every day. Knowing good food is part of a complete understanding of the world--part of a full enjoyment of nature, a full experience of the senses, a full life. Edward Behr is the editor and publisher of The Art of Eating, one of the most respected magazines about food and wine. Behr speaks internationally on food and culture and has been featured in publications ranging from The New York Times and The Atlantic to Forbes and The Financial Times. His writing and the magazine focus on taste, especially the connection between taste and the place food and wine come from."--Provided by publisher.

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