The Science of Cooking

A kitchen is no different from most science laboratories and cookery may properly be regarded as an experimental science. This book explains the principles behind taste, flavour and the main methods of food preparation, and gives fool-proof basic recipes for dishes from roast leg of lab to chocolate souffle. A kitchen is no different from most science laboratories and cookery may properly be regarded as an experimental science. Food preparation and cookery involve many processes which are well described by the physical sciences. Understanding the chemistry and physics of cooking should lead to improvements in performance in the kitchen. For those of us who wish to know why certain recipes work and perhaps more importantly why others fail, appreciating the underlying physical processes will inevitably help in unravelling the mysteries of the "art" of good cooking.