Most food is not ruined by bad recipes. It is ruined by heat — too much of it, too early, for too long. The Quiet Heat is the working book behind Setsuko's kitchen: the weights, the temperatures and the timings that decide whether meat is juicy or dry, fish holds or falls apart, and vegetables stay bright. 31 pages · 16 chapters · and five cut-out counter cards that live inside a cupboard door, so the numbers are there while your hands are wet. Every number in it can be checked with a thermometer, a scale and a clock. Nothing in it needs a machine.