Microwave Gourmet
by Barbara Kafka
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Featuring a dictionary of ingredients detailing cooking times and preparation, this comprehensive cookbook-encyclopedia comprises more than three hundred recipes.Tags
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If I was only allowed one cookbook, I might just pick this one. I have given it to many new brides. No, it is not as classic as Mastering the Art of French Cooking, but it is seminal. There has been no microwave cookbook that was as throughly researched as this one. When Barbara was writing it, her friends who were chefs were baffled by why a classically trained chef would bother with a microwave. She was fearless about telling what dishes were BETTER in a microwave than cooked conventionally and equally fearless about debunking claims by manufacturers that ANYTHING could be cooked in a microwave. It is also an excellent reference book. If it can be properly cooked in a microwave, Barbara will tell you how.
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Barbara Kafka was born Barbara Joan Poses in Manhattan, New York on August 2, 1933. She received a bachelor's degree in English literature from Radcliffe College. While her husband was attending medical school, she edited medical journals. Before becoming a food writer, she was an editor at Mademoiselle. She was a food columnist for The New York show more Times and Gourmet, Family Circle, and Vogue magazines. She wrote several cookbooks including Microwave Gourmet, The Opinionated Palate: Passions and Peeves on Eating and Food, Food for Friends, Roasting: A Simple Art, Vegetable Love, and The Intolerant Gourmet: Glorious Food Without Gluten and Lactose. She received two Lifetime Achievement Awards and the Cookbook Hall of Fame Award from the James Beard Foundation. She died from complications of Parkinson's disease on June 1, 2018 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1987
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- Genres
- Food & Cooking, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 641.5882 — Applied science & technology Home economics & family management Food, Cooking & Recipes / Meals, Picnics Cooking; cookbooks Cooking, Specialized Equipment Timed Cooking Microwave cooking
- LCC
- TX832 .K34 — Technology Home economics Home economics Cooking
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 2
