How to Pick a Peach by Russ Parsons

How to Pick a Peach by Russ Parsons

Critics greeted Russ Parsons' first book, How to Read a French Fry, with raves. The New York Times praised it for its "affable voice and intellectual clarity"; Julia Child lauded it for its "deep factual information."



Now in How to Pick a Peach, Parsons takes on one of the hottest food topics today. Good cooking starts with the right ingredients, and nowhere is that more true than with produce. Should we refrigerate that peach? How do we cook that artichoke? And what are those different varieties of pears? Most of us aren't sure. Parsons helps the cook sort through the produce in the market by illuminating the issues surrounding it, revealing intriguing facts about vegetables and fruits in individual profiles about them, and providing instructions on how to choose, store, and prepare these items. Whether explaining why basil, citrus, tomatoes, and potatoes should never be refrigerated, describing how Dutch farmers revolutionized the tomato business in America, exploring organic farming and its effect on flavor, or giving tips on how to recognize a ripe melon, How to Pick a Peach is Parsons at his peak.

The Los Angeles Times' food and wine columnist is RUSS PARSONS. He is the author of the best-selling How to Read a French Fry, a James Beard Award winner for journalism, and the IACP/Bert Greene Award winner for distinguished writing. He resides in California, which produces more than half of the country's fruits and vegetables. For more than two decades, he has been writing on food and agriculture.

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ISBN 13	9780547053806
ISBN 10	0547053800
Titel	How to Pick a Peach
Autor	Russ Parsons
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Harvest Publications
Erscheinungsjahr	2008-05-01
Seitenanzahl	432
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.