Buy this cookbook...stop calling Mom | How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food

Great book! | How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food | Mark Bittman

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	• How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food Mark Bittman Wiley, 2006 - 960 pages average customer review:based on 366 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A big book with a pretty accurate title

This book is really quite good at covering everything a beginning chef could want. It probably won't be the last cookbook you own, but it should probably be one of the first.

Like many amateur cooks, I can manage a few decent meals, but tend to shy away from recipes that I have little experience in. This is really a shame, because cooking something new is almost always fun and a good learning experience, even if it doesn't turn out quite like you imagined.

Armed with the great guidance of this tome, however, I feel confident in tackling just about any meal that sounds healthy and delicious.

In addition to the great recipes, the authors tone and obvious love of food and cooking comes through on every page, inspiring you to make things you haven't made before.

In short, this is a great, instructive book that will have a place in my kitchen for years to come.

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Buy this cookbook...stop calling Mom

I received this cookbook as a Christmas gift and I absolutely love it. It's helpful for someone like me who, although I have good intentions, is still learning about the basics of cooking. For example, I appreciate that this cookbook has at least one way to prepare nearly every single vegetable imaginable. The writing style is conversational and very easy and fun to read. The fact that it isn't glossy and brimming with shimmering pictures only makes it more attractive to me - less to live up to! I've had great success with the actual recipes that I've tried from this cookbook - Pico de Gallo most recently. But best of all, I've finally stopped calling my mom with questions like "what's a white sauce?" Mark, my mother thanks you!

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Great book!

My husband and I are not great chefs, and we felt some accomplishment that we could master any recipe in the Betty Crocker cookbook I grew up with...so that tells you what level we're at. Anyway, Mark Bittman's book has opened up a whole new world for us - I truly feel like we *can* cook everything now. Great recipes. Great menus. And most of all, great instructions - it tells you in pretty plain English how to finesse a delicate dish.

I especially recommend anything ethnic in this book, and the gazillions of ways to cook meat!

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Great cookbook

I absolutely love this cookbook! There are so many recipes for everything you can possibly want to cook and most have variations to spice up your favorite ones. Bittman goes into detail about cooking methods and descriptions of what ingedients, including a list of essential kithen tools and why you need them. A must have for beginning cooks.

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An Essential Cookbook

Easy to read, full of great recipes and tons of food trivia. There's also a section in the back with quick-fix meals and suggested menus for different occasions.
The style of the book is great for a beginner OR for someone looking to have a go-to recipe for just about anything. A fabulous resource for any kitchen.

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