{"id":1947,"date":"2011-11-11T13:38:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T18:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2011-11-11T13:38:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T18:38:49","slug":"podcast-and-michael-ruhlmans-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/podcast-and-michael-ruhlmans-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast and Michael Ruhlman’s books."},"content":{"rendered":"

I did a solo Baseball Today podcast<\/a> today, featuring Joe Sheehan talking free agency with me (including a diversion on the way teams view the catching position) and Michael Ruhlman talking food.<\/p>\n

Michael’s newest book is Ruhlman’s Twenty: 20 Techniques 100 Recipes A Cook’s Manifesto<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, an absolute must-own (I say that having owned it for inside of 24 hours). It’s a cookbook, but it’s more like an instruction manual for your kitchen, emphasizing fundamental techniques that will make everyone a better cook.<\/p>\n

His previous cookbook, which also gets at fundamentals, was the indispensable Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, which I reviewed<\/a> early last year.<\/p>\n

Michael first entered the world of food writing not as a cookbook author, but as a writer of food stories, especially those around chefs and chef culture, including The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection<\/a>\"\"<\/i> (reviewed here<\/a>) and The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, the latter of which is the book Michael mentioned on the show that had him shadowing students at the Culinary Institute of America and eventually cooking alongside them.<\/p>\n

And, of course, Michael has co-authored several cookbooks with uberchef Thomas Keller, including the cookbook for Keller’s flagship restaurant, The French Laundry Cookbook<\/a>\"\"<\/i>. I’ve never seen this book myself, although there are several recipes from it in the back of Soul of a Chef<\/i> that look amazing and intimidating all at once.<\/p>\n

Finally, I recommend Michael’s blog<\/a> for frequent recipes and ramblings on cooking, restaurants, and how we think about food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did a solo Baseball Today podcast today, featuring Joe Sheehan talking free agency with me (including a diversion on the way teams view the catching position) and Michael Ruhlman talking food. Michael’s newest book is Ruhlman’s Twenty: 20 Techniques 100 Recipes A Cook’s Manifesto, an absolute must-own (I say that having owned it for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,857,242,637],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-cooking","tag-podcast","tag-ruhlman","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1950,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}