The Wok by Kenji Lopez-Alt fits that description perfectly. It is a massive book, filled with a lot of technique and explanations, and additional recipes.

A similar book is Salt Acid Fat Heat by Samin Nosrat. She also has a short Netflix docu where she dives into depth about each part. It has accompanying recipes, but the main focus is on the know how and techniques.

No problem! Welcome to the app and Lemmy. For ally our other questions I am afraid I dont have a proper answer as I tend to lurk more instead of creating coomunities. There are some shoutout communities for new communities I believe.

If you go to search, and then explore you can see a full list, automatically sorted by moest popular.