Keeping Food Fresh : How to Choose and Store Everything You Eat

By Janet Bailey

Book Overview

This updated edition contains new exotic foods, more microwave tips, and expanded health information. Comprehensive and authoritative, Keeping Food Fresh is one of the few truly indispensable reference works that belong in every cook's library. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385276753
• ISBN13: 9780385276757
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Dial Press
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Keeping Foods Fresh

No kitchen should be without this book. My most used reference in the kitchen. Knowing how to store produce to maximize its life keeps down the waste. The book is well organized with a good index and is very easy to use.

Keeping Food Fresh

This book is a MUST for anyone serious about food! It tells you everything you need to know about storing any kind of food you can think of! I am constantly having to look up something, so mine is pretty dog-eared. Make that "was" pretty dog-eared --- it is SO good that people borrow it and don't return it! I am anxiously awaiting a new (my third!) copy of the book. So guard it well, it is indispensable!

A Kitchen Library Must-have

After contracting food poisoning from a restaurant meal several years ago, I became very interested in the topic of food safety and storage. This is THE book for those who would like extremely detailed and thoroughly researched information on this topic. It includes virtually every food item you can think of, with the proper buying and storing techniques for each item. A wonderful reference tool.

Checked this out at the library & soon knew I had to have it

This book is a perfect addition to your cookbook shelf in your kitchen!

It will change how you choose and store food!

Ten years ago Janet Bailey was puttering around the kitchen and came across rice she had bought several months back. She wondered whether it was still good, fresh, healthy. She discovered that finding answers to this common kitchen staple was a monumental task with no definite answers. Since then, Ms. Bailey has sifted through details of hundreds of books, interviewed food growers, processors, wholesalers, and kitchen testers to bring you an indispensable kitchen manual that answers the common daily question, 'Should I throw it out?' and information on storing foods with an eye for freshness and maximum nutrition. Keeping Food Fresh tackles common questions such as 'Can you freeze cheese?' and 'Which cheeses keep best?' Do you know how to sift through all the flour choices? Enriched, bleached, presifted, self-rising, cake, bromated, instant, all-purpose, enriched? In this book you'll find why your baked goods taste and look different.Simple hints on potatoes and onions: Why shouldn't you store them together? to herbs: dried, ground, whole, frozen, What's the difference?- and food storage: What's best for shelf, refrigerator, and freezer? You'll find it all here. Even the most experienced cooks will find surprising and revealing information that will change how you choose and store food. This book is a must for everyone wanting to know how to store food at its most colorful, succulent, and nutritional peak!