The New Basics Cookbook

Julee Rosso; Sheila Lukins

ISBN 10: 0894803921 / ISBN 13: 9780894803925

Published by Workman Publishing Company, 1989

About this Item

1st printing, fine, like new.

Seller Inventory # 2138203261

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Basics Cookbook
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0894803921
• ISBN 13: 9780894803925
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Sheila Lukins
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

It's the 1.8-million-copy bestselling cookbook that's become a modern-day classic. Beginning cooks will learn how to boil an egg. Experienced cooks will discover new ingredients and inspired approaches to familiar ones. Encyclopedic in scope, rich with recipes and techniques, and just plain fascinating to read, The New Basics Cookbook is the indispensable kitchen reference for all home cooks.

This is a basic cookbook that reflects today's kitchen, today's pantry, today's taste expectations. A whimsically illustrated 875-recipe labor of love, The New Basics features a light, fresh, vibrantly flavored style of American cooking that incorporates the best of new ingredients and cuisines from around the world.

Over 30 chapters include Fresh Beginnings; Pasta, Pizza, and Risotto; Soups; Salads; every kind of Vegetable; Seafood; The Chicken and the Egg; Grilling from Ribs to Surprise Paella; Grains; Beef; Lamb, Pork; Game; The Cheese Course, and Not Your Mother's Meatloaf. Not to mention 150 Desserts! Plus, tips, lore, menu ideas, at-a-glance charts, trade secrets, The Wine Dictionary, a Glossary of Cooking Terms, The Panic-Proof Kitchen, and much more.

Main Selection of the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service and the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books.

From the Back Cover

THE CELEBRATION CONTINUES

875 Recipes-33 Chapters-Illustrations Throughout-Microwave Miracles-Entertaining Tips-The Panic-Proof Kitchen-The New Basics Pantry-Glossary of Cooking and Wine Terms-At-a-Glance Charts: Meats; Fish; Herbs and Spices; Wild and Tame Mushrooms; Grains; Rice; Beans-And the Basic Basics from the Right Cut of Meat to How to Choose a Turnip