I'm Just Here for the Food: Version 2.0 - Hardcover

by Alton Brown (Author)

The creator and host of Food Network's Good Eats updates his award-winning primer on essential cooking techniques--now with fifteen new recipes!

First published in 2002, Alton Brown's I'm Just Here For the Food received the James Beard Foundation/KitchenAid Book Award for best reference book. This revised and updated edition features fifteen brand-new recipes, along with everything that made the original a classic kitchen instruction manual.

Each of the book's fifteen sections is a mini-master class on a given cooking method--from pan searing to pressure cooking, stewing, steaming, and more. And each includes a "master" recipe that epitomizes the technique along with a selection of recipes that demonstrate its range. Plus Brown shares a plethora of fascinating food facts, history, lore, and science.

Author Biography

Alton Brown is the writer, director, and host of the popular Food Network television show Good Eats, and is the resident food historian, scientist, color commentator, and host of the network's Iron Chef America series. In 2004, Brown was selected the Bon Appétit American Food & Entertaining Awards Cooking Teacher of the Year. He is a regular contributor to Bon Appétit and Men's Journal magazines. He lives in the southern United States with his wife and daughter.