Mastering Sauces: The Home Cook's Guide to New Techniques for Fresh Flavors

Great*****

Best mistake I ever made! A great book. Providing basic information, clearly and precisely, with wonderful recipes to hone the new skills on. I’m not new to sauce or gravy making but there is a ton of new information for me! Grateful for this lucky accident.

I like the fact that sauces are made accessible. The basics and base sauces are explained and the cook is allowed the flexibility to adapt based on their needs. This is the book's strength.However, this book is pretty deficient on Asian based sauces. For example, for the Thai Coconut Curry sauce, an ingredient used is Thai Red curry paste. For me, I want the real deal from scratch first. Then show me the shortcut. Another example is the Hoisin Barbeque Sauce which calls for 1/2 cup Hoisin sauce as one of the ingredients. The book never explains how to make Hoisin sauce. I needed to browse the internet to find some basics for this.

Enjoying learning the basics of sauces

This is not a book just about sauces, but a journey through developing subtle and bold flavours that will change the way you cook. Sauces are healthy, but never bland. The best cooking book I've purchased in many years.