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The 12 Cooking Principles Every Serious Home Cook Should Know
A short field guide to heat, salt, acid, fat, aroma, texture, sauces, fermentation, and the quiet logic behind better cooking.
Twelve short chapters on the invisible variables — heat, time, salt, acid, fat, aroma — that every recipe is secretly trying to control.
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A 5,000-Year History of Sauce
What the kitchen gained — and lost — before and after the mother sauces.
Eight short chapters tracing sauce from the Neolithic kitchen through Roman garum, medieval verjuice, and the French codification — into the five sauces every kitchen still teaches.
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