This is the ebook for cooks who want to take their cooking to a whole new level. Martha Holmberg was trained at La Varenne and is an award-winning food writer. Her look at this sometimes-intimidating genre–expressed in clear, short bites of information and through dozens of process photographs–delivers the skill of great sauce-making to every kind of cook, from beginners to those more … accomplished who wish to expand their repertoire. More than 100 recipes for sauces range from standards such as béarnaise, hollandaise, and marinara to modern riffs such as maple-rum sabayon, caramelized onion coulis, and coconut-curry spiked chocolate sauce. An additional 55 recipes use the sauces to their greatest advantage, beautifying pasta, complementing meat or fish, or elevating a cake to brilliant. Modern Sauces is both an inspiration and a timeless reference on kitchen technique.
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This book contains many recipes for different kinds of sauces and dressings. The recipes are easy to follow, and the author explains why and how each type is made. She gives suggestions for variations after each recipe. I haven’t tried many of them, but I am looking forward to enhancing my meals with sauces.
I great book for home cooks looking to up their sauce game. I learned so many great new things to try and all the instructions were so informative.
I really wanted to love this cookbook but I have tried 3 sauces and they were all terrible failures. This is not for the casual cook.
If you love to cook and want to up your game, this is the book for you. I read it cover to cover.
It is super useful Guide for a lot of meals!
As someone who has had some training with a professional chef, I have a particular appreciation for sauces. This book covers all the basics for beginners and inspires experienced cooks to be creative. It is well-written and contains some marvelous recipes. I highly recommend it for anyone who loves to cook.
Great book. Made a couple and was successful. If I use a recipe more than once, I think buying the book is worth it.
Sauce-making is truly an art and science. The author displays her knowledge and expertise in the best of terms.
This is a go-to type of book if you like improving your kitchen skills.
One of those little reference books you didn’t realize you would come back to so often. The sauces are mostly basic and of various ethnic origins. I go back constantly to confirm my ingredients and amounts when preparing meals. Nothing too fancy here – just solid sauces you can used every day to enhance your dishes.
A lot of recipes I plan to try soon!
Come Fall and Winter, I know I will be making quite a few of the sauces in this book. Most seem to be fairly healthy or easily adapted for healthier eating.
Handy book with a wealth of info on sauces gravies and dressings that you can easily accomplish and ideas to use them for other things
Comprehensive
Excellent single topic resource book. Love it.
This book will be a great reference for all the sauce recipes I will ever need! I’ve been wanting to learn more about sauces.
A valuable asset to anyone who loves to cook.
good information on how to make a sauce for almost any type of dish. and making pan sauces from drippings.
Lots of new and interesting sauces
Great simple recipes. Worked well on my Kindle where I keep the majority of my books. Easy to use in the kitchen. Love this book!