Cooking for Beginners - Softcover

Fryer, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903258650 ISBN 13: 9781903258651

Publisher: Carroll & Brown Publishers Limited, 2003

Synopsis

Cooking for Beginners imparts basic cooking skills along with a repertoire of dishes, without talking down to the novice. It will also help you decipher some of the instructions in other recipe books—not everyone knows how to "beat until stiff peaks form." Its unique spiral format stands it up so you are free to concentrate on the actual cooking. Recipes use readily available ingredients, and every recipe has clear step-by-step photographs for every stage and a shot of the finished dish. Advice is also given on equipment, buying ingredients, and using store-bought substitutes.

About this title

Synopsis

Walk into any bookshop, look at the shelves loaded with cookbooks and it's hard to believe that there are still people who don't know how to cook. During the last couple of decades, the easy availability of ready-prepared meals and take-outs means there is less need to cook at home and, because most parents work and basic skills are no longer taught in school, the average person grows up not knowing how to cook. Worries about high salt levels, hidden fat content and undesirable additives in convenience food, concerns about foods being improperly stored, and fears of microwave radiation are all persuading people to prepare their own meals from fresh ingredients. You are what you eat has finally sunk in. And the escalating cost of eating out in restaurants and the increasing number of TV celebrity chefs is encouraging even more people to find out how much fun cooking can be. Cooking for Beginners imparts basic cooking skills along with a repertoire of dishes, without talking down to you. It will also help you decipher some of the instructions in other recipe books - not everyone knows how to 'beat until stiff peaks form'.

- A cookbook that instructs, not insults, beginners - Unique spiral format stands it up so you are free to concentrate on the actual cooking - Recipes use few, readily available ingredients - Every recipe has clear step-by-step photographs for every stage and a shot of the finished dish - Instructions are simple and non-technical - All recipes have been tested to solve any anticipated or unforeseen problems - Foolproof recipes provide dozens of healthy, nutritious meals for every occasion - Advice is given on equipment, buying ingredients and using store-bought substitutes - Every recipe has nutritional breakdown

From the Back Cover

This eye-level, hands-free guide to culinary expertise is the next best thing to having an expert at one's elbow. It will enable kitchen novices to produce over 50 delicious, nutritious dishes with complete success, and to gain the cooking skills necessary to create meals for any occasion.

Your ideal cookery primer. Stand it on your counter or tabletop to see at a glance:
· 50 foolproof recipes in step-by-step form
· Every ingredient, piece of equipment and preparation and cooking technique required for each recipe
· Photographs of each finished dish accompanied by serving tips
· How to measure and chop ingredients and prepare equipment
· Suggestions for easy starters, accompaniments and desserts to round off your meals

Edition details

• Publisher: Carroll & Brown Publishers Limited
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903258650
• ISBN 13: 9781903258651
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 96