Conventional Cooking Methods

The basic cooking methods discussed in this section are considered the conventional or traditional cooking methods. Introduced here with brief definitions, they are discussed in greater detail in Chapter 11, as they are applied to vegetables, and again as they are applied to meats, poultry, and fish. In Chapter 14, each method is illustrated by a core recipe that gives you an opportunity to practice the technique in its most basic form before proceeding to the recipes in the chapters that follow.