how to cook everything the basics by mark bittman

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. 1,000 beautiful and instructive photographs throughout the book reveal key preparation details that make every dish inviting and accessible. 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. With How to Cook Everything The Basics he reveals how truly easy it is to learn fundamental techniques and recipes.

('Had Mark published this book sooner, I would not have had to go to culinary school,' attests Chef David Chang of MomoFuku.) All of Bittman's books are useful, but I predict The Basics will come to be viewed as the cornerstone of the Bittman culinary library.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. (If a lesson needs to be referred to later, there is an indexed list in the back.) Recipes for an entire basic culinary repertoire are given, from how to scramble an egg, to preparing pasta with tomato sauce to baking a homemade apple pie. The recipes are progressive, each building on the knowledge base of the last, and each recipe teaching a particular 'lesson,' such as how to mince, or how to broil, or how to tell when an egg is done. For starters, it has 1,000 photographs to clearly illustrate every cooking technique and procedure, leaving no room for error or guesswork. until now! How To Cook Everything: The Basics is the best possible cookbook to give to recent graduates, kids heading off to college, teenagers interested in cooking, and the occasional young couple getting married. That book's heyday has passed, and for several years there's been no clear successor.

In my youth, the de rigeur cookbook that was presented to young people heading out on their own was The Joy of Cooking (usually in paperback). How To Cook Everything: The Basics by Mark Bittman (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., $35, 496 pp)

How to cook everything the basics by mark bittman