A cookbook that unites enjoyment, craftsmanship, and inspiration. 'All My Recipes' offers a lovingly curated collection of classic and contemporary dishes from bourgeois, Central European, and Mediterranean cuisine – with clear instructions, accessible ingredient lists, and practical cooking tips.\n\nWhether simple everyday meals, elegant Sunday menus, or dishes for special occasions – every recipe has been tested and refined for taste and practicality. Step-by-step guidance, preparation n...

In this indispensable volume of kitchen wisdom, Julia Child gives home cooks the answers to their most pressing cooking questions—with essential information about soups, vegetables, eggs, baking breads and tarts, and more.How many minutes should you cook green beans? What are the right proportions for a vinaigrette? How do you skim off fat? What is the perfect way to roast a chicken?Here Julia provides solutions for these and many other everyday cooking que...

100 essential recipes for entertaining from the legendary Raymond Blanc. This recipe collection - containing 100 full-colour photographs - is not only incredible value for money but the perfect tool to make entertaining simple - and enjoyable. Give your dinner parties that WOW factor!'A classy production' - Sunday Telegraph Magazine'Terrific recipes - very simple - with Raymond's touch' -- ***** Reader review

"The Dean of American Cuisine" and mentor to some of the country's most acclaimed chefs offers essential kitchen wisdom in this illustrated guide (Julia Child)."In my twenty-five years of teaching I have tried to make people realize that cooking is primarily fun and that the more they know about what they are doing, the more fun it is."So begins James Beard's expansive book of culinary terms, methods, tools, and techniques. No one knew food better than Beard,...

Recipes for 300 luscious loaves, dessert breads, biscuits, and more: " Hensperger encourages and inspires . . . with obvious passion for her craft." — Publishers WeeklyA trusted authority on baking, Beth Hensperger has brought together hundreds of time-tested recipes, both classic and intriguingly original, from Gruyere Pullman Loaf and Farm-Style White Bread with Cardamom to fragrant Tuscan Peasant Bread and Classic Buttermilk Biscuits. A...

In this James Beard Award-winning cookbook, George Greenstein reveals 125 recipes for the yeasted and quick breads that have been handed down through his family by three generations of bakers—the breads that made his bakery so well-loved for so many years.For more than twenty years, Greenstein owned and operated a Long Island bakery that produced a wide variety of baked goods, from many different ethnic traditions—focaccia and Irish soda bread, Bavarian pumpernicke...

An indispensable resource for home cooks from the woman who changed the way Americans think about food.Perhaps more responsible than anyone for the revolution in the way we eat, cook, and think about food, Alice Waters has “single-handedly chang[ed] the American palate” according to the New York Times. Her simple but inventive dishes focus on a passion for flavor and a reverence for locally produced, seasonal foods.With an essential repertoire of t...

One pan + fresh ingredients = dinner for two! With an emphasis on reducing prep time and the usual sinkful of dishes, cooking instructor Carla Snyder serves up the ideal couple's guide to simple, complete, and truly delicious meals—imagine Balsamic Braised Chicken Thighs with Figs and Creamy Polenta or Thyme-Rubbed Salmon with Shallots and Caramelized Cauliflower "Risotto"—that can be made in one skillet, in less than 60 minutes. With recipes for home-cooked pasta, grains, sandwiches, beef...

Master the old-fashioned art of "putting food by" with easy DIY recipes for jam, jellies, and marmalades. "A remarkable culinary windfall." —Charlie Trotter, James Beard Award–winning chefGourmet Preserves Chez Madelaine shows a new generation of home cooks the age-old craft of preserving fruit. In addition, author and French cooking instructor extraordinaire Madelaine Bullwinkel includes dozens of recipes for muffins, scones, crepes, puddings, pastries, de...

Who else but Whole Foods Market could create a cookbook so fresh, so appealing, so full of valuable information, and so perfect for the way we are all cooking and eating today? Bursting with winning recipes, healthful cooking advice, cheerful guidance through the new language of natural foods, wine and cheese information, and a comprehensive glossary, this is a “thank goodness it’s here” kind of cookbook.The world’s largest natural and organic supermarket has created 350 contempora...

Meat: A Kitchen Education is award-winning author James Peterson’s guide for carnivores, with more than 175 recipes and 550 photographs that offer a full range of meat and poultry cuts and preparation techniques, presented with Peterson’s unassuming yet authoritative style.Instruction begins with an informative summary of meat cooking methods: sautéing, broiling, roasting, braising, poaching, frying, stir-frying, grilling, smoking, and barbecuing. Then, ch...

A master class on vegetables with award-winning cookbook author and renowned cooking instructor James PetersonHave you ever purchased bundles of ingredients at the farmers’ market only to arrive home and wonder what on earth to do with your bag of fiddlehead ferns, zucchini flowers, bamboo shoots, or cactus pads? Treat yourself to an in-depth education withVegetables, acclaimed author and teacher James Peterson’s comprehensive guide to identifying, selecti...