What Einstein Told His Cook

Food is something ordinary to us; we rarely think about what and how we eat, what happens to dishes and products before they appear on our table, why some of them we like more and others less, why some are healthy and others not. Meanwhile, every day miracles happen in the kitchen that we don’t notice. The author explains their nature and background clearly, simply, and with wit.

The book contains answers to more than 125 everyday questions that readers of the column in “The Washington Post” asked Robert Wolke over the course of several years—among them were both lovers of home cooking and professional cooks. Each section is built in the question-and-answer format and is written so it can be read independently of the others. In addition, you’ll also find unusual recipes created specifically to illustrate the explained principles—an entire course of tasty “laboratory exercises,” the results of which you can simply eat.