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Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor
Paper, 392 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13313-5
$16.95
/ £11.95
December, 2005
Cloth, 392 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13312-8
$29.95
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Series Editor’s Preface
Introduction to the English Language Addition
Part One: Secrets of the Kitchen
1 Making Stock
2 Clarifying Stock
3 Hard-Boiled Eggs
4 Quiches, Quenelles, and Puff Pastries
5 Echaudes and Gnocchi
6 The Well-Leavened Souffle
7 Quenelles and Their Cousins
8 Fondue
9 Roasting Beef
10 Seasoning Steak
11 Wine and Marinades
12 Color and Freshness
13 Softening Lentils
14 Souffleed Potatoes
15 Preserves and Preserving Pans
16 Saving a Creme Anglaise
17 Grains of Salt
18 Of Champagne and Teaspoons
19 Coffee, Tea, and Milk
Part Two: The Physiology of Flavor
20 Food as Medicine
21 Taste and Digestion
22 Taste in the Brain
23 Papillary Cells
24 How Salt Affects Taste
25 Detecting Tastes
26 Bitter Tastes
27 Hot Up Front
28 The Taste of Cold
29 Mastication
30 Tenderness and Juiciness
31 Measuring Aromas
32 At Table in the Nursery
33 Food Allergies
34 Public Health Alerts
Part Three: Investigations and Models
35 The Secret of Bread
36 Yeast and Bread
37 Curious Yellow
38 Gustatory Paradoxes
39 The Taste of Food
40 Lumps and Strings
41 Foams
42 Hard Sausage
43 Spanish Hams
44 Foie Gras
45 Antioxidant Agents
46 Trout
47 Cooking Times
48 The Flavor of Roasted Meats
49 Tenderizing Meats
50 Al Dente
51 Forgotten Vegetables
52 Preserving Mushrooms
53 Truffles
54 More Flavor
55 French Fries
56 Mashed Potatoes
57 Algal Fibers
58 Cheeses
59 From Grass to Cheese
60 The Tastes of Cheese
61 Yogurt
62 Milk Solids
63 Sabayons
64 Fruits in Syrup
65 Fibers and Jams
66 The Whitening of Chocolate
67 Caramel
68 Bread and Crackers
69 The Terroirs of Alsace
70 Length in the Mouth
71 Tannins
72 Yellow Wine
73 Wine Without Dregs
74 Sulfur and Wine
75 Wine Glasses
76 Wine and Temperature
77 Champagne and its Foam
78 Champagne in a Flute
79 Demi Versus Magnum
80 The Terroirs of Whisky
81 Cartagenes
82 Tea
Part Four: A Cuisine for Tomorrow
83 Cooking in a Vacuum
84 Aromas or Reactions?
85 Butter: A False Solid
86 Liver Mousse
87 In Praise of Fats
88 Mayonnaises
89 Aioli Generalized
90 Orders of Magnitude
91 Hundred-Year-Old Eggs
92 Smoking Salmon
93 Methods and Principles
94 Pure Beef
95 Fortified Cheeses
96 Chantilly Chocolate
97 Everything Chocolate
98 Playing with Texture
99 Christmas Recipes
100 The Hidden Taste of Wine
101 Teleolfaction
Glossary
Further Reading
Index