How to Cook Everything: The Basics gives you essential recipes and easy-to-follow guidance to help you cook with confidence. Mark Bittman, the bestselling, award-winning 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 prime rib for company. Not only will you make some of the best food you’ve ever eaten, you’ll save money and eat more healthfully, too.

Anyone can cook

• Simple, satisfying recipes with easy-to-follow directions
• Tips to help you shop for, prepare, and cook the recipes
• Recipe variations and lists of ideas to adapt dishes to your taste
• Step-by-step illustrations for tricky techniques like mincing garlic

Simple. Straightforward.
Just what you need to cook well.

Customer Rating:
Summary: "How to Boil Water"
Comment: A simple, straight-forward book that might be useful for the absolute beginner. But for those even slightly beyond grilled cheese or spaghetti, go for the original, full-length version instead.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great starter cookbook!
Comment: I bought this cookbook for my son who is on his own now that he and his long-time girlfriend have split up (and yes, she did most of the cooking). He is really interested in learning to cook well and with this cookbook he is off to a great start. Lots of good, easy-to-follow, very non-intimidating recipes. But even more valuable than the recipes, there is a lot of good, practical cooking advice and know-how in this book. I highly recommend this cookbook to any novice cook, or anyone who wants to brush up on the basics and just add to their collection of great recipes.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Fast food kid now cooks (a little)
Comment: I grew up in a fast food family; I never learned to cook the healthier and gourmet-ish stuff I like to eat now.

This book got me up and running with simple and tasty recipes. I still prepare the same salads, fish and pastas I learned when I first picked up this book a few years ago. 'The Basics' even gave me the confidence to try my own variation to a breakfast dish, a plate that has become everyday favorite.

I'm still not big on cooking. But this book got me started, gave me a new skill, and helped to change my life in a small but tasty way.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazingly Easy
Comment: I was never good at cooking in any way, shape, or form. I set out to find a book to learn how to cook, and I found this one.

This book makes cooking amazingly easy. From the very beginning, it presents the most important aspects of cooking and delineates what cooking utensils are essential and what the different forms of cooking are (broiling, steaming, grilling, etc.). The recipes provided are simple and easy to understand and follow; they also produce food that is absolutely delicious. Recipes are accompanied by suggested modifications and tips for shopping and preparing.

This is the perfect book for learning how to cook. I highly recommend it to anyone, particularly those who are like I was, knowing nothing about cooking.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Bittman speaks:
Comment: As usual this condensed book on "basics" meets the optimal needs of the "minimalist". The book is well written, comprehensive, easy to understand, and extremely pratical for "anyone" who cooks, wants to learn how to cook, or needs to improve on their cooking skills.

The supplier must be complemented as well, for providing a good price combined with excellent service.

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