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Cooking by Hand Paul Bertolli, Gail Skoff, Judy Dater
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group

Transfer some to a serving plate and serve as a side dish with rice. My Mom is an amazing cook but she can hardly explain a recipe. Add the mumalaengi and mix it well by hand. The recipe (From Paul Bertolli's Cooking by Hand) calls for back-fat diced by hand and meat from the pig's hind leg only. She will always explain me the recipe in a nutshell and she doesn't go by measurements. "Soppressata [pictured here in the middle of the board] is a dry-cured pork Salami from Calabria. Food processors make cooking a second-hand experience. You can wear a disposable cooking glove to prevent your hand from sore; Sprinkle with sesame seeds. My grandmother would do all of her cooking by hand, she had us shelling peas, and breaking the green beans. Dating from his years at Oliveto, Cooking By Hand is Bertolli's lone cookbook so far, a manifesto for appreciating pure whole ingredients and taking care with them, from fresh tomatoes to charcuterie. The kinetics of chopping, grating, mixing and other touch-the-process steps are what I like about cooking.