The Home Cook: Recipes to Know by Heart

by Alex Guarnaschelli

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The all-in-one cooking bible for a new generation with 300 recipes for everything from simple vinaigrettes and roast chicken to birthday cake and cocktails.

For Alex Guarnaschelli—whose mother edited the seminal 1997 edition of The Joy of Cooking, which defined the food of the late twentieth century—a life in food and cookbooks was almost predestined. Now an accomplished chef and author in her own right (and mom to a young daughter), Alex pens a cookbook for the way we eat today. For show more generations raised on vibrant, international flavors and supermarkets stocked with miso paste, harissa, and other bold condiments and ingredients, here are 300 recipes to replace their parents’ Chicken Marbella, including Glazed Five-Spice Ribs, Roasted Eggplant Dip with Garlic Butter Naan, Roasted Beef Brisket with Pastrami Rub, Fennel and Orange Salad with Walnut Pesto, Quinoa Allspice Oatmeal Cookies, and Dark Chocolate Rum Pie. Cooking & Food. Nonfiction. Reference. show less

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deborahee 724 reviews

I love this cookbook! Guarnaschelli really knows how to put a dish together, and this cookbook has a great selection of soups (my favorite), main dishes, desserts, and sides- every one that I tried I thoroughly enjoyed. There was also a solid selection of flavors ranging from spicier chicken dishes to hearty root vegetable soups. Plus, most of them were fairly easy and there were not a lot of difficult to find ingredients. I know I'm gonna be making quite a few of these recipes again this autumn!

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