--- product_id: 33120668 title: "Taste & Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking [A Cookbook]" price: "KD 14.80" currency: KWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/33120668-taste-and-technique-recipes-to-elevate-your-home-cooking-cookbook store_origin: KW region: Kuwait --- # Taste & Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking [A Cookbook] **Price:** KD 14.80 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Taste & Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking [A Cookbook] - **How much does it cost?** KD 14.80 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.kw](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/33120668-taste-and-technique-recipes-to-elevate-your-home-cooking-cookbook) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description James Beard Award-winning and self-made chef Naomi Pomeroy's debut cookbook, featuring nearly 140 lesson-driven recipes designed to improve the home cook's understanding of professional techniques and flavor combinations in order to produce simple, but show-stopping meals. Naomi Pomeroy knows that the best recipes are the ones that make you a better cook. A twenty-year veteran chef with four restaurants to her name, she learned her trade not in fancy culinary schools but by reading cookbooks. From Madeleine Kamman and Charlie Trotter to Alice Waters and Gray Kunz, Naomi cooked her way through the classics, studying French technique, learning how to shop for produce, and mastering balance, acidity, and seasoning. In Taste & Technique , Naomi shares her hard-won knowledge, passion, and experience along with nearly 140 recipes that outline the fundamentals of cooking. By paring back complex dishes to the building-block techniques used to create them, Naomi takes you through each recipe step by step, distilling detailed culinary information to reveal the simple methods chefs use to get professional results. Recipes for sauces, starters, salads, vegetables, and desserts can be mixed and matched with poultry, beef, lamb, seafood, and egg dishes to create show-stopping meals all year round. Practice braising and searing with a Milk-Braised Pork Shoulder, then pair it with Orange-Caraway Glazed Carrots in the springtime or Caramelized Delicata Squash in the winter. Prepare an impressive Herbed Leg of Lamb for a holiday gathering, and accompany it with Spring Pea Risotto or Blistered Cauliflower with Anchovy, Garlic, and Chile Flakes. With detailed sections on ingredients, equipment, and techniques, this inspiring, beautifully photographed guide demystifies the hows and whys of cooking and gives you the confidence and know-how to become a masterful cook. Review: One of the best cookbooks for serious home cooks - I own 250+ cookbooks, and this is one of the best new cookbooks that I've seen in a while. Definitely one of the best cookbooks published in the last 10 years, and probably longer. The title says it all "...elevate your home cooking." These aren't necessarily dishes that you can throw together when you get home from work; they are more involved than your typical weeknight meal (though the chapter on sauces is fantastic - you could pull any of the sauces together on a week night to greatly enhance the simplest protein or starch.) Instead, the recipes are better suited for times when you want to have a nicer, more impressive dinner for guests or yourself. The book nicely fills the gap between other chef-written cookbooks. Jacques Pepin's incredible recipes focus on the essence of a dish and can be made without too much time/fuss. Thomas Keller's recipes are fantastic, yet they are labor- and technique-intensive; you are basically replicating his restaurant methods at home. Chef Pomeroy finds the sweet spot between the two approaches. As an added bonus, the photographs of each dish are gorgeous and inspiring. Highly recommended. Review: With Thanks! - Every recipe so far is a 5-star winner! Naomi, I can not thank you enough. Your instructions inspire confidence and produce great food. Last night I made the pan-seared salmon. You could have said, "Heat the oil, add the salmon, and cook for about three minutes." Instead you entered my kitchen, hovered over the pan with me, and coached me along. "Heat a black steel pan over high heat until very hot. Add the oil and heat until the surface is rippling but not smoking. Add all of the salmon, skin side down, and press lightly with the back of a fish spatula (see page 373) to ensure a good sear on the skin. Cook until the fish looks opaque approximately halfway up the sides, about 3 minutes." Salmon is not cheap. I can't afford to figure out what you mean when you tell me to start cooking it. I need to know what you mean. You continued with me every step of the way until my plate matched the picture in the book. Beautiful! Delicious! And you have offered me plenty of white space on the page to add my own notes, comments, and praise. You have thought of everything! I am grateful! In your introduction you said, "It's my hope that this book will encourage you to get into the kitchen, take cooking seriously, and feel good about it." It has. I am. And I do. Thank you! And my family thanks you as well! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #330,376 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #101 in Professional Cooking (Books) #406 in Cooking Encyclopedias #473 in Cooking, Food & Wine Reference (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 380 Reviews | ## Images ![Taste & Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking [A Cookbook] - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81IDZPfbEHL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the best cookbooks for serious home cooks *by N***E on February 18, 2018* I own 250+ cookbooks, and this is one of the best new cookbooks that I've seen in a while. Definitely one of the best cookbooks published in the last 10 years, and probably longer. The title says it all "...elevate your home cooking." These aren't necessarily dishes that you can throw together when you get home from work; they are more involved than your typical weeknight meal (though the chapter on sauces is fantastic - you could pull any of the sauces together on a week night to greatly enhance the simplest protein or starch.) Instead, the recipes are better suited for times when you want to have a nicer, more impressive dinner for guests or yourself. The book nicely fills the gap between other chef-written cookbooks. Jacques Pepin's incredible recipes focus on the essence of a dish and can be made without too much time/fuss. Thomas Keller's recipes are fantastic, yet they are labor- and technique-intensive; you are basically replicating his restaurant methods at home. Chef Pomeroy finds the sweet spot between the two approaches. As an added bonus, the photographs of each dish are gorgeous and inspiring. Highly recommended. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ With Thanks! *by R***L on November 13, 2016* Every recipe so far is a 5-star winner! Naomi, I can not thank you enough. Your instructions inspire confidence and produce great food. Last night I made the pan-seared salmon. You could have said, "Heat the oil, add the salmon, and cook for about three minutes." Instead you entered my kitchen, hovered over the pan with me, and coached me along. "Heat a black steel pan over high heat until very hot. Add the oil and heat until the surface is rippling but not smoking. Add all of the salmon, skin side down, and press lightly with the back of a fish spatula (see page 373) to ensure a good sear on the skin. Cook until the fish looks opaque approximately halfway up the sides, about 3 minutes." Salmon is not cheap. I can't afford to figure out what you mean when you tell me to start cooking it. I need to know what you mean. You continued with me every step of the way until my plate matched the picture in the book. Beautiful! Delicious! And you have offered me plenty of white space on the page to add my own notes, comments, and praise. You have thought of everything! I am grateful! In your introduction you said, "It's my hope that this book will encourage you to get into the kitchen, take cooking seriously, and feel good about it." It has. I am. And I do. Thank you! And my family thanks you as well! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of my favorite books *by M***G on October 16, 2018* I have way too many cookbooks. Like kids, it is hard to choose favorites as they each have so much to offer. That being said, this is certainly one of my favorite cookbooks, and possibly #1. One could spend months working through Taste & Technique and learn so much about cooking technique, seasoning food, ingredients, etc. It is a very personal book. Chef Pomeroy talks about dishes from her childhood that influenced her as a person and a chef. I enjoyed hearing about the Go To salad her Mom made for her family growing up, or the souffles that were a staple for them. Perfection and attention to detail is part of the gig here. For example, when a dish calls for a spicy mustard, the author specifies what type to use, and provides details on the distinct flavor profile to look for in the mustard to keep the dish balanced. Brand names are provided so you can seek them out at your local market. If I could only buy one book for aspiring cooks, this would probably be the one. ## Frequently Bought Together - Taste & Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking [A Cookbook] - The Flavor Matrix: The Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extraordinary Dishes --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/33120668-taste-and-technique-recipes-to-elevate-your-home-cooking-cookbook](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/33120668-taste-and-technique-recipes-to-elevate-your-home-cooking-cookbook) --- *Product available on Desertcart Kuwait* *Store origin: KW* *Last updated: 2026-05-13*