Binding: Hardcover
Description: The next best thing to having Mark Bittman in the kitchen with you Mark 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. 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 185 recipes cooking with How to Cook Everything The Basics is like having Bittman in the kitchen with you. This is the essential teaching cookbook with 1,000 photos illustrating every technique and recipe; the result is a comprehensive reference that's both visually stunning and utterly practical. Special Basics features scattered throughout simplify broad subjects with sections like Think of Vegetables in Groups How to Cook Any Grain and 5 Rules for Buying and Storing Seafood. 600 demonstration photos each build on a step from the recipe to teach a core lesson like Cracking an Egg Using Pasta Water Recognizing Doneness and Crimping the Pie Shut. Detailed notes appear in blue type near selected images. Here Mark highlights what to look for during a particular step and offers handy advice and other helpful asides. Tips and variations let cooks hone their skills and be creative.
Title: How To Cook Everything: The Basics All You Need To Make Great Food - - With 1,000 Photos: A Beginner Cookbook
Author(s): Bittman Mark
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780470528068
Pages: 496 Pages
Publication Date: 3/5/2012
Series: How to Cook Everything Series
Category: General Cookery & Recipes