Cooking Arts Collection: Cooking Essentials (1999)

by Mary Berry, Marlena Spieler, Marlena Spieler (Author)

Series: Cooking Arts Collection

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A complete basic cooking course in a single volume, this book gently guides the culinary novice from stocking the pantry to selecting ingredients and preparing more than 100 recipes. Colorful, close-up photos show the starting-out cook how to fry an egg, roast a chicken, or bake a pie. Pictorial lists of ingredients and utensils ensure that nothing is overlooked.--From publisher description.… (more)

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This little gem not only has recipes, it tells you the basics of preping your food.

Do you know how to peel a potato? What is the proper way to prep a papaya?
This book will tell you, then help you make the dish.
It is a picture book that will help you see how to hold hte tools as well as use them. (

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dragonasbreath | Jun 5, 2010 |

This is a great book for the new cook. It tells what is needed for pots, pans, & utensils. What basic spices, pastas, beans, etc and the step by step recipes are easy to follow. I have been cooking for 45 years and I wish I had this book way back in the stone age. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Mary Berry	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Spieler, Marlena	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Spieler, Marlena	Author	main author	all editions	confirmed

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DK would like to thank Fay Franklin for editorial management, Virginal Walter for design management, Mari Roberts for editorial assistance, Robert Ford and Laura Jackson for design assistance, Susan Bosanko for the index, Jasmine Challis for the nutritional information, and the British Chicken Information Service and the Meat and Livestock commission for their helpful advice and information.

Additional Photography by David Murray and Jules Selmes, Jerry Young, Amanda Heywood Clive Streeter, Philip Dowell, Stephen Oliver and Steve Gorton

Special thanks also for the following companies for their generous gifts: Schwartz Herbs and Spices for the supply of Windermere, Cumbria, for the supply of a wide range of kitchen equipment; ICTC of Norwich for pots, pans and utensils; Jim Wilkinson Promotions Ltd for Good Grips Potato Masher

Thanks also to the following for their kind loans: Magimix UK Ltd for the blender adn food processor; Kenwood Appliance Plc for the food mixer; Braun (UK) Ltd for the handheld blender; David Mellor for various items and Divertimenti for various items

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A complete basic cooking course in a single volume, this book gently guides the culinary novice from stocking the pantry to selecting ingredients and preparing more than 100 recipes. Colorful, close-up photos show the starting-out cook how to fry an egg, roast a chicken, or bake a pie. Pictorial lists of ingredients and utensils ensure that nothing is overlooked.--From publisher description.

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