Now You're Cooking
Everything a Beginner Needs to Know to Start Cooking Today
Description:... One of USA Today's dozen best cookbooks of the year
-- 1995 winner of the Julia Child Cookbook Award and the James Beard Cookbook Award for Best General CookbookFor those who don't know a wok from a waffle iron, Now You're Cooking is like manna from heaven. The convenient paperback edition of the four-star favorite of beginners leaves nothing to chance. Here's how to chop, mince, slice, and dice, with the right knife for each job. Here's how to wash lettuce, peel potatoes, seed tomatoes, and brew coffee. Here's how to stock a pantry and a refrigerator. Maybe most important, here's how to clean up as you go along so you'll have space enough to enjoy the meal you've made.
By the end of Chapter 1, the reader will have mastered egg salad and will be brave enough to take on a full dinner of "practically indestructible" foods: roast chicken, baked potatoes, green salad with homemade dressing, baked apples. Basic techniques of grilling, sauteing, baking, broiling, steaming, and other cooking methods are broken down into easy-to-follow steps. Simple recipes are accompanied by a "Let's Talk" section in which the author answers all the questions a beginner might have.
Throughout the book, Elaine Corn seasons her text with equal parts enthusiasm, clarity, and wisdom. Attractive stylized illustrations add spice.
"A refreshing and realistic approach to cooking. ...offers a detailed but simple step-by-step approach in 150 recipes that should make even the most insecure cook feel comfortable". -- Washington Post
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