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Williams-Sonoma Essentials of Roasting: Recipes and techniques for delicious oven-cooked meals

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I bought this book because I wanted to learn how to make those mouth watering roasted dishes one sees on TV. The book has tons of recipes sorted in different categories like starters, fish, poultry, meats, vegetables, etc. The book starts by explaining the basics of roasting and the utensils you'll need. The recipes are easy to follow and explicit enough to know how wide to cut the ingredients for example. All this without extending more than necessary. I particularly like the BIG, colorful and sharp pictures that come with every recipe. It has helped me get an idea on how the dish should look like. Not all steps have a picture, only those that are prone to confusion do.

I have made several recipes from the book and the feedback has been very positive, and I'm not an expert or anything. Based on this I'm thinking of buying more books from this author and/or publisher.

Excellent book. My wife is very happy upon receiving it during her birthday because she can't find an excellent roasting book in our country's book stores. She has been looking for almost 2 years before I surprised her with this book. She now starting to try most of the recipes and I am enjoying her fruitful roasted dish, yum-yum.

This book is beautifully illustrated and chock full of great tips and recipes. Get it!

This book I one of about 4 I have ordered in the last week and I just got it today. Some details about roasting, but even better some recipes that are varied and somewhat more simple with ingredients than some of the other books I have ordered. Thats ok too........ I have ordered several books on maybe one particular topic like roasting, some will be more detailed about the equipment and various techniques and some have recipes that are more detailed and maybe slightly complicated because they involve cooking with wines or some ingredients that I don't normally use. Adding this book to the stack makes it perfect. For a beginner cook just starting to learn to roast this is a perfect book and I would highly recommend it. I like the color pictures this book displays. I was really impressed with this book as sometimes Williams Sonoma books can be more for the fancier chefs or professionals where this one fits my style perfect. Recipes using spices that will be an easy find and most don't require a lot of cooking with different types of wines. This is just what I was looking for and can't wait to try some of the recipes out. I can master these and move on to some of the other books about roasting that I have purchased!!!!

My mom wanted a cookbook for her roasting pan for Christmas and this book has tons of great recipes and looks like it is going to be great. I am excited about giving it to her.