An encyclopedic volume on everything you'll ever need to know about cooking. Essential everyday ingredients, cooking techniques and recipes are presented on over 700 pages and in thousands of stunning photographs and easy to follow step by step instructions.

A comprehensive collection of clear instructions for everyday cooking, from home-style comfort cooking to restaurant-worthy dishes. Includes vegetarian alternatives.

This fabulous encyclopedia of spices is not only a practical cookbook but an invaluable and expert kitchen reference.

A comprehensive, A-to-Z guide to Jewish foods, recipes, and culinary traditions—from an author who is both a rabbi and a James Beard Award winner. Food is more than just sustenance. It’s a reflection of a community’s history, culture, and values. From India to Israel to the United States and everywhere in between, Jewish food appears in many different forms and variations, but all related in its fulfillment of kosher laws, Jewish rituals, and holiday traditions. The Encyclopedia of Jewish Food explores unique cultural culinary traditions as well as those that unite the Jewish people. Alphabetical entries—from Afikomen and Almond to Yom Kippur and Za’atar—cover ingredients, dishes, holidays, and food traditions that are significant to Jewish communities around the world. This easy-to-use reference includes more than 650 entries, 300 recipes, plus illustrations and maps throughout. Both a comprehensive resource and fascinating reading, this book is perfect for Jewish cooks, food enthusiasts, historians, and anyone interested in Jewish history or food. It also serves as a treasure trove of trivia—for example, the Pilgrims learned how to make baked beans from Sephardim in Holland. From the author of such celebrated cookbooks as Olive Trees and Honey, the Encyclopedia of Jewish Food is an informative, eye-opening, and delicious guide to the culinary heart and soul of the Jewish people.

This is a fully illustrated reference guide to the breads of the world, with over 150 recipes and details of traditional baking methods. It contains a step by step techniques section explains every stage of the bread making process.'