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Synopsis
Bring bolder flavors to home cooking with this extensive exploration into remarkable condiments and pantry essentials that can turn any simple dish into something special, elevated, and inspired. Ever wondered how to use elevated ingredients like fish sauce, preserved lemon, umeboshi, or bee pollen in your own cooking? While professional chefs employ pantries filled with exciting powders, preserves, and cured products--like agar, dried lime, coconut nectar, black garlic, and dried shrimp--these modern ingredients are often passed over by home cooks. Make pumpkin dumplings with black vinegar and parmesan, anchovy gremolata, fried rice with curry leaves and tamarind, tahini hot chocolate, and an olive oil cake with almond, citrus, and coriander. The Modern Larder explores these unsung ingredients--oils, vinegars, sauces, syrups, spices, and preserves--that anoint delicious, wholesome, and bold cooking, elevating your everyday meals.
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One ingredient can change the nature of a dish, elevating it from flat to transcendent--with 58 ingredient profiles and more than 260 recipes and variations. Do you have a kitchen full of jars and pastes and flours you want to use more? From capers, cr me fra che, and fish sauce to date syrup, labneh, preserved lemon, and more, Michelle McKenzie offers a fresh perspective on magical pantry items that are often overlooked by home cooks.
With 58 ingredient profiles and more than 260 recipes and variations featuring those ingredients, learn to harness the power of your pantry to make dishes extraordinary. Undeniably inspiring yet also happily pragmatic, The Modern Larder will change your approach to cooking and elevate your everyday meals.