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Books like The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
The best books like The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science are Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, and Make It Stick. The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-Alt is about food science, cooking technique, myth-busting. If that's what drew you in, here are 5 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
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Samin Nosrat · Cooking
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is Samin Nosrat's argument that four basic elements govern whether food tastes good — salt, which amplifies flavor; fat, which carries flavor and creates texture; acid, which balances and brightens; and heat, which determines how food transforms.
A kindred cooking read.
Read the summary → - Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool · Science
Peak is Anders Ericsson's definitive account of deliberate practice — the specific type of focused, feedback-driven training that, more than any other factor, determines how expert people become in demanding fields.
A kindred cooking read.
Read the summary → - Make It Stick
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Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger and Mark A. McDaniel · Science
Make It Stick is a book about how memory actually works, and why the study techniques most people rely on — re-reading, highlighting, massed practice — are among the least effective ways to learn.
A kindred cooking read.
Read the summary → - Mastery
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Robert Greene · Self-help
Mastery is Robert Greene's long account of how extraordinary human mastery develops — from childhood inclinations through apprenticeship through creative independence to the integration that characterizes true mastery.
A kindred cooking read.
Read the summary → - Lean Analytics
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Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz · Business
Lean Analytics is Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz's attempt to give early-stage companies a practical framework for using data to move faster.
Both dig into experimentation.
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Books like The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science: quick answers
What are the best books like The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science?
The best books like The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-Alt are Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool, Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger and Mark A. McDaniel, Mastery by Robert Greene, Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, such as food science, cooking technique, myth-busting.
What should I read after The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science?
A natural next read after The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science is Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat. A kindred cooking read. Other strong choices are Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool, Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger and Mark A. McDaniel, Mastery by Robert Greene.
What books are similar to The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-Alt?
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science centers on food science, cooking technique, myth-busting. Books with a similar feel include Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool, Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger and Mark A. McDaniel, Mastery by Robert Greene, Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
