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Sight Smell Touch Taste Sound Sybil Kapoor

Sight Smell Touch Taste Sound By Sybil Kapoor

Sight Smell Touch Taste Sound by Sybil Kapoor


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Sight Smell Touch Taste Sound Summary

Sight Smell Touch Taste Sound: A new way to cook by Sybil Kapoor

Exploring the five elements of cooking and eating: Taste, Flavour (smell), Texture (touch and sound), Temperature (touch) and Appearance, this book explains how these elements work together and how best to use them to produce simple, delicious dishes. This is Sybil Kapoor's Sight Smell Touch Taste Sound - essential for any cook's bookshelf.

'COOKERY BOOK OF THE YEAR' - FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS 2019

A fascinating and important book, informative, inspiring and a joy to read. - Claudia Roden

What makes a dish look alluring? Can smell (flavour) enhance the pleasure of eating? Does the texture and sound of food change our perception? Sight Smell Touch Taste Sound is essential reading for anyone who loves to cook. Sybil Kapoor leads the reader through simplified kitchen theory and a selection of tempting recipes reveal how we can unlock the power of our five senses to make amazing meals.

Integral to our experience of eating, our five senses are the building blocks of cookery throughout the world, whether you are making lemon pickle in India or porridge in Scotland. This book explains how these five elements work together and shows the reader how best to use them in everyday cooking to produce simple, delicious dishes.

Sight Smell Touch Taste Sound Reviews

'The thinking person's cookbook, this explores the role of the senses in eating and cooking...It won't just make you a more aware cook but a more fulfilled and attentive one, too. Mindfulness in the kitchen.'

* Telegraph Weekend *

'This is a book to stir up appetite and memory alike.'

* Bread & Oyster Magazine *

'This really thrilled me. I love the journey of textures it takes you on...It's fresh.'

-- Sheila Dillon * BBC Radio 4 The Food Programme *

'[A]n inspired new cookbook'

* The Wall Street Journal *

'Kapoor has a childlike gift for making cooking feel less like drudgery and more like a magical game.'

* Times Literary Supplement *

'[A] fresh way to think about food. A book that adds a dash of science, thought and theory, but ultimately leans on the reader to blend the ideas into their own culinary style.'

* The Caterer *

About Sybil Kapoor

Sybil Kapoor is one of Britain's most respected food writers. The author of eight books, she began her career as a chef in London and New York and has since won many awards for her writing, including two prestigious Glenfiddich Awards, two Michael Smith Awards from the Guild of Food Writers and Food Writer of the Year at The Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2015. Her features have appeared in the Guardian, The Sunday Times, the Financial Times, Sainsbury's Magazine, Delicious and Waitrose Food Illustrated, amongst others. Her bestselling books include Modern British Food, Simply British and Taste: A New Way to Cook. She contributes to The Economist's 1843 Magazine, House & Garden and the award-winning Borough Market Market Life magazine.

Additional information

GOR009540520
9781911595670
1911595679
Sight Smell Touch Taste Sound: A new way to cook by Sybil Kapoor
Used - Very Good
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
20180906
240
Winner of Cookery Book of the Year 2019 (UK)
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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