About this item
"Pure vegetable magic!" - CARA MANGINI, chef and author of The Vegetable Butcher Ingeniously built around the use of eight umami-rich ingredients - aged cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms, soy sauce, miso, caramelized onions, smoke, and nutritional yeast - these 75 recipes are bursting with the sublime, savory fifth taste. Turn mushrooms into "lardons" for a bold take on Southern black-eyed peas and greens. Caramelize onions to use in the best grilled cheese ever. Add a secret spoonful of soy sauce to the frosting of your next chocolate cake - the soy taste disappears but leaves behind an unexpected depth of flavor. Part of the brilliance of Umami Bomb is how the recipes layer these key ingredients to amplify their effect - like adding miso to an already cheesy cacio e pepe sauce for pasta so savory and delicious you'll do a double take.
About the Author
Raquel Pelzel is Brooklyn, NY-based cookbook author and writer. Her book TOAST (Phaidon) was published in 2015. She has collaborated on 20 cookbooks with chefs and food personalities and has been nominated and has received numerous awards for her work. Find out more about Raquel at http://www.raquelpelzel.com
