Season: Big Flavors, Beautiful Food

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Chronicle Books, Oct 2, 2018 - Cooking - 272 pages
There are few books that offer home cooks a new way to cook and to think about flavor—and fewer that do it with the clarity and warmth of Nik Sharma's Season. Season features 100 of the most delicious and intriguing recipes you've ever tasted, plus 125 of the most beautiful photographs ever seen in a cookbook. Here Nik, beloved curator of the award-winning food blog A Brown Table, shares a treasury of ingredients, techniques, and flavors that combine in a way that's both familiar and completely unexpected. These are recipes that take a journey all the way from India by way of the American South to California. It's a personal journey that opens new vistas in the kitchen, including new methods and integrated by a marvelous use of spices. Even though these are dishes that will take home cooks and their guests by surprise, rest assured there's nothing intimidating here. Season, like Nik, welcomes everyone to the table!
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
10
FLAVOR GLOSSARY
23
Small Bites
31
Salads + Soups
57
THE WHYS OF SEASONING
82
Grains + Vegetables
89
Seafood
113
Eggs + Poultry
135
Sweets
192
Sips
223
Staples
249
RESOURCES
282
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
283
INDEX
285
About the Author
289
Chronicle Ebooks
291

THE HOWS OF SEASONING
158
Meat
165

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About the author (2018)

Nik Sharma is the bestselling author of cookbooks celebrated for blending culinary science with deeply personal storytelling: Season, The Flavor Equation, and Veg-table. A former molecular biologist, Sharma brings a unique lens to the kitchen, where flavor is both a feeling and a formula. He’s the creator of the award-winning blog Nik Sharma Cooks (formerly A Brown Table), serves as Editor in Residence at America’s Test Kitchen, and hosts the YouTube show Flavor Forward with Nik Sharma. His writing and photography have been featured in The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. He lives in Los Angeles, California, where he’s always dreaming up his next recipe.

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