num_pages: 432
description: With 50 Foods  noted authority Edward Behr has created the definitive guide to the foods every food lover must know. A culinary Baedeker 50 Foods will delight and inform the connoisseur as well as the novice. Like Behrs celebrated magazine The Art of Eating 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 qualitysigns 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 transformedinto 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 cant 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 worldpart of a full enjoyment of nature a full experience of the senses a full life. For the connoisseur at any level 50 Foods is a beautifully written guide to deliciousness with color illustrations by Mikel Jaso throughout.
language: English
title: 50 Foods: The Essentials of Good Taste
publisher: Penguin Press