The Onion's Third Annual Surprisingly Specific Holiday Gift Guide on Michael Ruhlman's The Elements Of Cooking: "[He] has a different conception of the average American's baseline culinary competency."...
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You've probably seen Michael Ruhlman on The Next Iron Chef, serving as a judge, with his uniquely passionate and analytical perspective. You probably have a copy of The French Laundry Cookbook, the book he co-wrote with Thomas Keller that may be the ultimate in food-porn cookbooks. Or maybe you're a regular reader of his entertaining, opinionated blog. So it shouldn't surprise you that Ruhlman has now written The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen. Modeled on Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, this book attempts to do nothing less than pare the essentials of good cooking down to fewer than 250 concise pages. What's really in this book? Here's what Anthony Bourdain says in his...
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