![]() ![]() ![]() (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) ![]()
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