Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing (Revised and Updated) Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing (Revised and Updated)

Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing (Revised and Updated‪)‬

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Publisher Description

An essential update of the perennial bestseller.

Charcuterie exploded onto the scene in 2005 and encouraged an army of home cooks and professional chefs to start curing their own foods. This love song to animal fat and salt has blossomed into a bona fide culinary movement, throughout America and beyond, of curing meats and making sausage, pâtés, and confits. Charcuterie: Revised and Updated will remain the ultimate and authoritative guide to that movement, spreading the revival of this ancient culinary craft.

Early in his career, food writer Michael Ruhlman had his first taste of duck confit. The experience “became a fascination that transformed into a quest” to understand the larger world of food preservation, called charcuterie, once a critical factor in human survival. He wondered why its methods and preparations, which used to keep communities alive and allowed for long-distance exploration, had been almost forgotten. Along the way he met Brian Polcyn, who had been surrounded with traditional and modern charcuterie since childhood. “My Polish grandma made kielbasa every Christmas and Easter,” he told Ruhlman. At the time, Polcyn was teaching butchery at Schoolcraft College outside Detroit.

Ruhlman and Polcyn teamed up to share their passion for cured meats with a wider audience. The rest is culinary history. Charcuterie: Revised and Updated is organized into chapters on key practices: salt-cured meats like pancetta, dry-cured meats like salami and chorizo, forcemeats including pâtés and terrines, and smoked meats and fish. Readers will find all the classic recipes: duck confit, sausages, prosciutto, bacon, pâté de campagne, and knackwurst, among others. Ruhlman and Polcyn also expand on traditional mainstays, offering recipes for hot- and cold-smoked salmon; shrimp, lobster, and leek sausage; and grilled vegetable terrine. All these techniques make for a stunning addition to a contemporary menu.

Thoroughly instructive and fully illustrated, this updated edition includes seventy-five detailed line drawings that guide the reader through all the techniques. With new recipes and revised sections to reflect the best equipment available today, Charcuterie: Revised and Updated remains the undisputed authority on charcuterie.

  • GENRE
    Cookbooks, Food & Wine
    RELEASED
    2013
    September 3
    LANGUAGE
    EN
    English
    LENGTH
    320
    Pages
    PUBLISHER
    W. W. Norton & Company
    SELLER
    W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
    SIZE
    6.9
    MB

    Customer Reviews

    Jonny the cap ,

    One of the greatest "How to cook" books

    This is a wonderful book full of technique and recipes. Great instruction on to making foods that I didn't think were possible for the home cook like pastrami, duck confit, dry aged sausages and the list goes on. A lot of fun for the experimental cook.

    Rondaddydo ,

    Charcutery

    Delightful recipes presented in a clear and entertaining story of home meat preservation. This is going to be a delicious Autumn!

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