I'm Just Here for More Food: Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking [B0897]

2012 HCDJ 1st edition in excellent condition, 9x9-inches, 335-pages. Dig into the science, history, and trivia of baking in this follow-up to the James Beard Award-winning I'm Just Here for the Food. Includes lots of recipes! Alton Brown explores the science behind breads, cakes, cookies, pies, and custards, explaining it in his own inimitable style. Recipes cover all the basics, from pie crust to funnel cake to cheese souffle. The book also contains appendices and equipment lists. Recipes include Piña Colada Waffles, Chicken and Dumplings, Free-Form Apple Pie, Chocolate Pound Cake, Pizza Dough, Halloween Mousse, Everyday Bread, and more!

"I'm Just Here for More Food takes one of the most knotty areas of cooking and makes it delightfully straightforward. For anyone who's interested in baking, even an expert, this book offers an enormous amount of useful and fascinating information." ?The Austin Chronicle. "An instruction manual for people who want to be better bakers . . . Anyone who has a yen to learn the science and methodology behind good food will find this a fascinating read." ?Publishers Weekly.

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This is the sort of book I've been looking for, for years. My old flat-mate, Dr Moss, always claimed that cooking was just chemistry but I really didn't understand the sort of cooking chemistry that was required and this book sets it out really well for baking. There is an absolute treasure house of information and tips here. Plus a real wealth of recipes"; "I love Alton Brown, and I love baking. When I got it for my grandson who is trying to bake semi-professionally, I glanced through it and immediately ordered another for myself. This is not a cookbook as we know it. This is the science of baking, written in a conversational tone, with real Alton Brown asides, just as though he were standing next to you in the kitchen. As he says, if you are looking for a book of recipes, this isn't it (although he does include the basics). But if you want to learn how to bake, and why attention to detail is so important, you couldn't do better than to start here."