Susan Spaull Knihy

Leiths Techniques Bible is the ultimate cooking reference book. Here you will find all the information taught during the year-long diploma course at Leiths School of Food and Wine. Learn how to prepare meat and fish, make perfect pastry and bread, as well as equip a kitchen. Understand what makes recipes work and what has happened when they haven't. With answers to every cooking question from how to make perfect mashed potatoes to making a spun sugar cage, this is an indispensable book for everyone from the novice cook to the experienced chef.

Produced by the acclaimed Leiths School of Food and Wine, Leiths Baking Bible is authoritative, thorough, and comprehensive, covering every aspect of baking from bread, patisserie, and pastry to cakes, scones, buns, and biscuits. You will find all the classic recipes here€”Profiteroles, Quiche Lorraine, Swiss Roll, and Brioche€”and innumerable tempting alternatives€”Artichoke and Green Olive Tart, Walnut Bread, and Almond Shortbread. As with all the cookbooks in the Leiths series, there is an emphasis on technique, especially invaluable for a book on this subject. Useful, inspiring, and utterly reliable, this is the only book you'll need for home baking.

Discusses the purchase and preparation of seafood and supplies recipes for cooking shrimp, trout, sole, tune, crab, salmon, and other fish

Reflecting Leith's School of Food & Wine's classic but creative style of cooking, Ideal Home Entertaining provides recipes that combine fresh, seasonal ingredients with cookery techniques from around the world. With recipes that can be prepared ahead and produced by anyone, from the novice cook to the experienced chef, entertaining couldn't be easier.