"For avid home cooks who came of age in the digital era, there may be few voices more authoritative than that of J. Kenji Lpez-Alt, the nerd king of Internet cooking...He is reliable, personable and unpretentious. He is also a gifted explainer, making difficult concepts easy to grasp for those of us with a lifelong lack of aptitude for the sciences." --The New York Times "Lopez-Alt's application of scientific rigour to home cooking is actually a lot of fun. Any book that devotes 13 pages to achieving the perfect chip is all right by us." --The 25 best food books of 2015, The Observer Food Monthly "Lpez-Alt shows that conventional methods do not always work well and explains how home cooks can achieve better results using new techniques. A bestseller in America." --The Irish Sunday Times "...a must-read for home cooks...