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How to Cook Everything The Basics: All You Need to Make Great Food -- With 1,000 Photos (original 2003; edition 2012)

by Mark Bittman

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"The next best thing to having Mark Bittman in the kitchen with youMark Bittman's highly acclaimed, bestselling book How to Cook Everything is an indispensable guide for any modern cook. With How to Cook Everything The Basics he reveals how truly easy it is to learn fundamental techniques and recipes. From dicing vegetables and roasting meat, to cooking building-block meals that include salads, soups, poultry, meats, fish, sides, and desserts, Bittman explains what every home cook, particularly novices, should know.More than 1,000 beautiful and instructive photographs throughout the book reveal key preparation details that make every dish inviting and accessible. With clear and straightforward directions, Bittman's practical tips and variation ideas, and visual cues that accompany each of the 171 recipes, cooking with The Basics is like having Bittman in the kitchen with you. This is the essential how-to cookbook, with more than 1,000 beautiful and helpful photos of step-by-step techniques and finished recipes Special "Basics" pages cover essentials like equipping a kitchen and stocking a pantry, what to look for when buying produce, how to tell when food is done, and more Tips and variations let home cooks hone their skills and be creative How to Cook Everything The Basics is an absolutely essential beginner's cookbook and an irresistible and invaluable guide for accomplished cooks"-- "A 4-color book with more than 1,000 how-to and finished recipe photos"--… (more)
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Title:How to Cook Everything The Basics: All You Need to Make Great Food -- With 1,000 Photos
Authors:Mark Bittman
Info:Wiley (2012), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 496 pages
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  JennysBookBag.com | Sep 28, 2016 |
great basic recipies with a slightly different twist - great resource, Beth would love
  nancybooks | May 4, 2013 |
This book would make an excellent gift for a college student or a young person just starting out on their own. Good instruction and pictures on basic cooking techniques. Also good for those of us whose culinary education has been sporadic. ( )
  sassafras | Sep 6, 2012 |
I've blown up pies in the oven. My gravy could be used as paste in a kindergarten classroom. The final straw on my ineptitude in the kitchen was the day I set a pot of boiling water on fire. I was tired of the jokes from my family. I did not like being called the Lean Cuisine Queen, or the Microwave Diva. I come from a long line of fine Southern cooks, and it wasn't right or fair that I would be the odd man out.

This book started me on the path to being a Kitchen Goddess. I learned how to properly chop vegetables and unpeel cloves of garlic. I can now peel and devein shrimp with the best of them. Each chapter I read twice before I moved on to actually making the recipes at hand. I love this book. I repeat, I LOVE THIS BOOK.

This book may not be right for you if you were fortunate or smart enough to wander into the kitchen in your youth for more than a Dorito sandwich and a soda. However, if you are (or were) like me and consider the kitchen as the room where the milk is kept, this may just be your road to salvation. I know it was for me. ( )
  quillmenow | Jan 19, 2009 |
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"The next best thing to having Mark Bittman in the kitchen with youMark Bittman's highly acclaimed, bestselling book How to Cook Everything is an indispensable guide for any modern cook. With How to Cook Everything The Basics he reveals how truly easy it is to learn fundamental techniques and recipes. From dicing vegetables and roasting meat, to cooking building-block meals that include salads, soups, poultry, meats, fish, sides, and desserts, Bittman explains what every home cook, particularly novices, should know.More than 1,000 beautiful and instructive photographs throughout the book reveal key preparation details that make every dish inviting and accessible. With clear and straightforward directions, Bittman's practical tips and variation ideas, and visual cues that accompany each of the 171 recipes, cooking with The Basics is like having Bittman in the kitchen with you. This is the essential how-to cookbook, with more than 1,000 beautiful and helpful photos of step-by-step techniques and finished recipes Special "Basics" pages cover essentials like equipping a kitchen and stocking a pantry, what to look for when buying produce, how to tell when food is done, and more Tips and variations let home cooks hone their skills and be creative How to Cook Everything The Basics is an absolutely essential beginner's cookbook and an irresistible and invaluable guide for accomplished cooks"-- "A 4-color book with more than 1,000 how-to and finished recipe photos"--

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