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Cookbooks for Beginners

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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

5 recommendations
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A visionary new master class in cooking that distills decades of professional experience into just four simple elements, from the woman declared ?America?s next great cooking teacher? by Alice Waters.In the tradition of The Joy of Cooking and How to Cook Everything comes Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, an ambitious new approach to cooking by a major new cul...

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How to Cook Everything
How to Cook Everything

Simple Recipes for Great Food

2 recommendations
Description

The ultimate kitchen companion, completely updated and better than ever, now for the first time featuring color photos For twenty years, Mark Bittman?s How to Cook Everything has been the definitive guide to simple home cooking. This new edition has been completely revised for today?s cooks while retaining Bittman?s trademark minimalist style?eas...

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How to Be a Domestic Goddess
How to Be a Domestic Goddess

Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking

1 recommendation
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Nigella Lawson's How to Be a Domestic Goddess is about not only baking, but the enjoyment of being in the kitchen, taking sensuous pleasure in the entire process, and relishing the outcome. Nigella's deliciously reassuring and mouthwatering cookbook demonstrates that it's not terribly difficult to bake a batch of muffins or a layer cake, but the ap...

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How to Cook Everything The Basics
How to Cook Everything The Basics

All You Need to Make Great FoodWith 1,000 Photos

1 recommendation
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How to Cook Everything: The Basics gives you essential recipes and easytofollow guidance to help you cook with confidence. Mark Bittman, the bestselling, awardwinning author of How to Cook Everything , shows you how to make a good burger or delicious pasta for everyday meals as well as chicken soup on a cold day, lasagne because you love it, and...

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Sweet Potato Soul
Sweet Potato Soul

100 Easy Vegan Recipes for the Southern Flavors of Smoke, Sugar, Spice, and Soul

1 recommendation
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100 vegan recipes that riff on Southern cooking in surprising and delicious ways, beautifully illustrated with fullcolor photography. Jenn Claiborne grew up in Atlanta eating classic Soul Foodfluffy biscuits, smoky sausage, Nana's sweet potato piebut thought she'd have to give all that up when she went vegan. As a chef, she instead spent year...

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Ottolenghi Simple
1 recommendation
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A collection of 130 easy, flavorforward recipes from beloved chef Yotam Ottolenghi.In Ottolenghi Simple, powerhouse author and chef Yotam Ottolenghi presents 130 streamlined recipes packed with his signature Middle Easterninspired flavors. Each dish can be made in 30 minutes or less, with 10 or fewer ingredients, in a single pot, using pantry sta...

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No coverThe Food Lab
The Food Lab

Better Home Cooking Through Science

1 recommendation
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Ever wondered how to panfry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly mediumrare from edge to edge when you cut into it How to make homemade mac 'n' cheese that is as satisfyingly gooey and velvetysmooth as the blue box stuff, but far tastier How to roast a succulent, moist turkey (forget about brining!)?and use a foolproof...

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Good and Cheap
Good and Cheap

Eat Well on $4/Day

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A perfect and irresistible idea: A cookbook filled with delicious, healthful recipes created for everyone on a tight budget?and a cookbook with a strong charitable component: With every copy of Good and Cheap purchased, a second copy will be given to a person or family in need.While studying food policy as a master?s candidate at NYU, Leanne Brown ...

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The Flavor Bible
The Flavor Bible

The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs

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Winner of the 2009 James Beard Book Award for Best Book: Reference and ScholarshipGreat cooking goes beyond following a recipeit's knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. Drawing on dozens of leading chefs' combined experience in top restaurants across the country, Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg present...

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The Instant Pot Bible
The Instant Pot Bible

More than 350 Recipes and Strategies

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With more than 5 million Instant Pots sold, these multicookers are more than a consumer craze. They have fundamentally changed the way many families put food on the tableand more! Because of the incredible versatility of this kitchen tool (which combines a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, yogurt function, steamer, and more in one pot), ...

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Vietnamese Food Any Day
Vietnamese Food Any Day

Simple Recipes for True, Fresh Flavors [A Cookbook]

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Delicious, fresh Vietnamese food is achievable any night of the week with this cookbook's 80 accessible, easy recipes.IACP AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR The Washington Post Eater Food52 Epicurious Christian Science Monitor Library JournalDrawing on decades of experience, as well as the cooking hacks...

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No cover30Minute Cookbook for Beginners
30Minute Cookbook for Beginners

100 Recipes for the TimePressed Cook

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Your next homecooked meal is just 30 minutes away no experience necessaryCooking can seem daunting, timeconsuming, and laborintensive, but it doesn?t have to be. All you need are the basic tools, a few strategies for getting organized, and some easy recipes to start you off. If you?ve been looking for cookbooks for beginners, this one offers all...

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No coverVegetarian Cooking for Everyone
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The tenth anniversary edition of this landmark cookbook, with more than 325,000 copies in print, includes a new introduction from Deborah Madison, America?s leading authority on vegetarian cooking.What Julia Child is to French cooking, Deborah Madison is to vegetarian cooking?a demystifier and definitive guide to the subject. After her many years a...

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Bread Baking for Beginners
Bread Baking for Beginners

The Essential Guide to Baking Kneaded Breads, NoKnead Breads, and Enriched Breads

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From beginning home baker to artisanal bread makerBaking a perfect loaf of bread is part science and part magic. Created from four simple ingredients of flour, yeast, water, and salt, breadmaking is one of the most difficult (and delicious) baking endeavors. Bread Baking for Beginners is a rare bread cookbook for true beginners to keep their bread ...

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No coverEssential Pépin
Essential Pépin

More Than 700 AllTime Favorites from My Life in Food

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For the first time ever, the legendary chef collects and updates the best recipes from his sixdecade career. With a searchable DVD demonstrating every technique a cook will ever need. In his more than sixty years as a chef, Jacques Pépin has earned a reputation as a champion of simplicity. His recipes are classics. They find the shortest, surest r...

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No coverBetter Homes and Gardens New Cook Book
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Since 1930, the Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book has been a trusted staple in kitchens across America. The 17th edition is fully updated and revised to reflect both the best of today's food trends and timetested classics. With more than 1,000 recipes and a photo for each one, the book covers both traditional dishes such as Brownies and new f...

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The Homemade Vegan Pantry
The Homemade Vegan Pantry

The Art of Making Your Own Staples [A Cookbook]

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A guide to creating vegan versions of staple ingredients to stock the fridge and pantryfrom dairy and meat substitutes such as vegan yogurt, butter, mayo, bacon, and cheese, to mustards, dressings, pancake mix, crackers, pasta sauces, cookies, and more. Kitchen crafters know the pleasure of making their own staples and specialty foods, whethe...

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No coverBeginner's Baking Bible
Beginner's Baking Bible

130 Recipes and Techniques for New Bakers

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Baking is a cakewalk with these beginner?s tips, tricks, and techniquesFor a beginner, baking might seem like magic: mix the right ingredients, add heat, and watch a transformation happen before your eyes. But you don?t have to be a sorcerer to bake a flavorful pie, decadent layer cake, or pillowy loaf of bread. Beginner's Baking Bible walks you th...

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Chloe's Vegan Desserts
Chloe's Vegan Desserts

More than 100 Exciting New Recipes for Cookies and Pies, Tarts and Cobblers, Cupcakes and Cakesand More!

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Chef Chloe, the first vegan winner of Cupcake Wars, brings her signature creativity and fun to the best part of every meal: Dessert! CHEF CHLOE?S first alldessert cookbook, Chloe?s Vegan Desserts, will satisfy your sweet tooth from morning to night with more than 100 recipes for cakes and cupcakes, ice cream and doughnuts and pies?oh my! And you j...

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Flour
Flour

Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery Cafe

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Available recommendation signals cluster around Cookbooks, For, Beginners, Baking, Dessert lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for reader-fit discovery across adjacent interests. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverSimple Cake
Simple Cake

All You Need to Keep Your Friends and Family in Cake [A Baking Book]

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A nostalgic ode to the joy of homemade cake, beautifully photographed and with easy mixandmatch recipes for a sweet lift any day of the week.Everyone has a favorite style of cake, whether it's citrusy and fresh or chocolatey and indulgent. All of these recipes and more are within your reach in Simple Cake, a love letter from Brooklyn apron and ba...

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Small Victories
Small Victories

Recipes, Advice Hundreds of Ideas for Home Cooking Triumphs (Best Simple Recipes, Simple Cookbook Ideas, Cooking Techniques Book)

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"I can't wait to cook my way through this amazing new book," Ina Garten writes in the foreword to this cookbook of more than 400 recipes and variations from Julia Turshen, writer, goto recipe developer, coauthor for bestselling cookbooks such as Gwyneth Paltrow's It's All Good, Mario Batali's Spain...on the Road Again, and Dana Cowin's Mastering...

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No coverCook Like a Pro
Cook Like a Pro

Recipes and Tips for Home Cooks

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Cook with confidence no matter how much experience you have in the kitchen with the help of the beloved Food Network star "Garten has kicked things up a level, this time encouraging readers to try more ambitious recipes that are still signature Ina: warm, comforting, homey."Chicago TribuneNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS...

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Joy of Cooking
Joy of Cooking

2019 Edition Fully Revised and Updated

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In the nearly ninety years since Irma S. Rombauer selfpublished the first three thousand copies of Joy of Cooking in 1931, it has become the kitchen bible, with more than 20 million copies in print. This new edition of Joy has been thoroughly revised and expanded by Irma?s greatgrandson John Becker and his wife, Megan Scott.John and Megan develop...

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The Best Simple Recipes
The Best Simple Recipes

More Than 200 Flavorful, Foolproof Recipes That Cook in 30 Minutes or Less

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The team at America's Test Kitchen has created more than 200 easytomake 30minute recipes that guarantee impressive results from a minimum of effort. With a little test kitchen knowhow (and relentless testing and retesting), we found ways to make naturally fast dishes even faster, and traditionally slowcooked dinners a weeknight option. But on...

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Barefoot Contessa Family Style
Barefoot Contessa Family Style

Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family

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Ina Garten, who shared her gift for casual entertaining in the bestselling Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and Barefoot Contessa Parties!, is back with her most enticing recipes yet?a collection of her favorite dishes for everyday cooking. In Barefoot Contessa Family Style, Ina explains that sharing our lives and tables with those we love is too essenti...

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No coverJacques Pépin Quick & Simple
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250 of master chef Jacques Pépin's classic and timeless recipes for unexpectedly polished and satisfying meals with minimal prep and cleanup You don't need a kitchen brigade, decadeshoned skills, or expensive ingredients to cook and eat like master chef Jacques Pépin. Just like the rest of us, he doesn't always have as much time or energy as he'd ...

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No coverSuper Easy Cookbook for Beginners
Super Easy Cookbook for Beginners

5Ingredient Recipes and Essential Techniques to Get You Started in the Kitchen

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The Super Easy Cookbook for Beginners offers a handson approach to learning how to cook with essential techniques and easy, 5ingredient recipes....

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No coverUltimate Veg
Ultimate Veg

Easy & Delicious Meals for Everyone [American Measurements]

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERJamie Oliver, one of the bestselling cookbook authors of all time, is back with brilliantly easy, delicious, and flavorpacked vegetable recipes.This edition has been adapted for the US market. It was originally published in the UK under the title Veg. From simple suppers and family favorites, to weekend dishes for sharing ...

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