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Cooking Basics For Dummies

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John Wiley & Sons, Feb 8, 2011 - Cooking - 300 pages
The majority of people don’t know where to start when it comes to cooking a successful meal.  Packed with easy-to-follow guidelines and recipes, this full-colour, hardback, spiral-bound edition of Cooking Basics For Dummies helps novice chefs navigate the kitchen and learn staple cooking techniques.

The lay-flat binding is the ideal format for the kitchen environment and the full-colour photos throughout show readers what they can expect to achieve from their efforts. 

Cooking Basics For Dummies includes:

  • Choosing the right tools and stocking your pantry
  • The essential cooking techniques - boiling, poaching, steaming,   sautéing, braising, stewing, roasting and grilling
  • Expanding your repertoire with delicious recipes
  • A glossary of over 100 common cooking terms

About the Authors

Bryan Millar is a former New York Times restaurant critic. Marie Ramer is a food writer.

  

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great reference for all cooks

User Review  - downhomealabama - Overstock.com

This is a great book for beginners or seasoned cooks as well, There are great ideas on everything from spices, cooking methods, cookware, This would be a great FIRST book for anyone wanting to find ... Read full review

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User Review  - Holly - Goodreads

I don't think this book would be entirely helpful for a beginner. That is, they'd have to read the whole thing, because the order is not entirely helpful. Measuring doesn't come until chapter 10? Very few pictures and most of those are drawings. Read full review

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Contents

Table ofContents
Where to Go from Here
Friends not foes
Kitchen Safety Essentials
Necessity or Luxury?
Bottled and Tinned Goods
Buying and StoringFruit and Vegetables Picking your produce
Fish
What Sauce Really Is Classic WhiteSauce from ze French
Impressive inMinutes
Expand Your Repertoire
Stirring Up Souper Homemade Soups
Cosying Up to Comforting Soups
All Dressed Up Salads and Dressings
Pastamania
Macaroni Strandpasta

Boiling Poaching and Steaming
Working with Other Whole Grains
Poaching Seafood
Firm rich fish
Braisingand StewingNow Thats Home Cooking
The House Smells Delicious Roasting and Grilling
Roasting Poultry
Beef Pork and Lamb
OnePot Meals
Sweet Somethings
CosyPuddings and Elegant Ices Fruit from the Oven
The PartofTens
Oregano
Ginger
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2011)

Bryan Miller is a former New York Times restaurant critic and the author of numerous cookbooks and restaurant guides. Marie Rama is an independent food and media consultant who has previously worked as a professional pastry chef and recipe developer.

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