All About Braising | Molly Stevens 

From the perfect pot roast to the fragrant complexity of braised endive, there's no food more satisfying than a well-braised dish.The art of braising comes down to us from the earliest days of cooking, when ingredients were enclosed in a heavy pot and buried in the hot embers of a dying fire until tender and bathed in a deliciously concentrated sauce. Today, braising remains as popular and as uncomplicated as ever. Molly Stevens's All About Braising is a comprehensive guide to this versatile way of cooking, written to instruct a cook at any level. W. W. Norton & Company, 2004