The Great Wings Book (Great Series) [Paperback]

Hugh Carpenter (Author), Teri Sandison (Author)

Book Description

Series: Great Series | Publication Date: June 1, 2008

The perfect accompaniment for summer barbecues, sporting events, picnics, and parties, chicken wings have come a long way since the city of Buffalo popularized them more than 40 years ago. Not stopping at hot sauce and blue cheese dip, THE GREAT WINGS BOOK presents more than 40 classic and innovative recipes, from old-fashioned buffalo wings to globetrotting sauces, rubs, and marinades guaranteed to make your wings take flight. Seasoned cookbook authors Hugh Carpenter and Teri Sandison cover everything you need to know to buy, store, roast, grill, smoke, deep-fry, and braise amazing wings of your own.

 A full-color collection of 50 party-ready chicken wing recipes that incorporate contemporary pan-Asian, pan-Latin, and all-American flavors. A companion volume to the best-selling GREAT RIBS BOOK.

 

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* A full-color collection of 50 party-ready chicken wing recipes that incorporate contemporary pan-Asian, pan-Latin, and all-American flavors.

About the Author

TERI SANDISON is an award-winning food photographer. HUGH CARPENTER teaches at cooking schools throughout North America and at his own school in California's Napa Valley. They are the authors of the HOT and FAST series of books. This is their twelfth cookbook. They live in Oakville, California.


HUGH CARPENTER teaches at cooking schools throughout North America and at his own school in California's Napa Valley. TERI SANDISON is an award-winning food photographer. They are the authors of the HOT and FAST series of books. This is their twelfth cookbook. They live in Oakville, California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press (June 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580088945
• ISBN-13: 978-1580088947
• Product Dimensions: 4.5 x 0.4 x 10.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #361,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #40 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Cooking by Ingredient > Meat, Poultry & Seafood > Poultry

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply delicioius, April 3, 2010

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D. Rachlin "wunland" (Stow, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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The best thing about this book is that all the recipes are just as good with any cut of chicken. I just did the Asian barbecue marinade on five chicken breasts and grilled them outdoors. The thick sauce was excellent. Don't worry too much about the seemingly endless lists of ingredients. If you don't happen to have one or more of them, who cares? Experiment and swap using your own sense of taste. There's enough flavor in each recipe to give you tasty chicken. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm sure many of the recipes would be good on other types of meat.
The other books in this series are also very good. The only drawback is the idiotic shape of the book, which is impossible to use when you are up to your elbows in raw chicken and other messy sauces.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book, December 31, 2008

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R. Peckham "Robertp" (Staunton, VA.) - See all my reviews
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I enjoy this book as much as I enjoy wings. This a must for wingers and it amazed me how many different wings types are out in the world..... A MUST READ.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly good!, April 19, 2010

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Mark the Traveler "Mark" (Boston) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Great Wings Book (Great Series) (Paperback)

To me, Chicken Wings are one of the 4 major food groups... I've been developing recipes and cooking wings for years.

I decided to try the book because I love trying new wing recipes and it was inexpensive (total impulse purchase.) I had very low expectations because it was not by a well known chef and was a cheap book. Often the recipes in books like that are ok, but nothing special.

I have been very pleasantly surprised by this book! All the recipes I've tried have been accurate and produced great results. My favorite are the carolina wings (though not a "true" carolina barbecue sauce as I am used to it, it worked great with the wings!)

The ONLY problem I have with the recipes is that several of them have too much sugar and produce results that are too sweet. Some of the sugar will be in there to help the wings color up nicely as the sugar caramelizes, but the results are too sweet. I have gone back and adjusted some of the recipes to cut the sugar for both taste and health reasons.

If you like cooking wings and want to try a bunch of wing recipes this is a good consolidated source.