Ingredient: Unveiling the Essential Elements of Food

An IACP Award-Winning Cookbook

In this entertaining, informative guide, one of the leading experts in culinary science—a chef, consultant, and scientist who has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, from Thomas Keller to Daniel Humm—paints a portrait of each of the fundamental building blocks of food, giving all cooks a way to visualize and respond to what’s really happening in the pan.

There are ingredients, and then there are Ingredients. An ingredient is…