A Powerful New Cooking Tool

THIS BOOK INTRODUCES AMERICAN COOKS TO ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT culinary innovations of modern times. And what is this great advance? A way of heating foods precisely. At last! Heat is the most important ingredient in cooking, the one that can transform all the others into something delicious—or into something dry and dull. It’s also the ingredient that has been the hardest to measure or control. But in this book, Thomas Keller and his chefs illustrate the powers of precision heating with dozens of dishes that wouldn’t be as fine, or even conceivable, without it.