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How to Cook Everything

2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food
Apr 13, 2012Ebflat4 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Very useful; a manual for cooks rather than coffee table food porn. I like the line drawings. I also like the way he outlines a recipe or technique and then gives you lots of options for variations. It's similar in that respect to the Joy of Cooking. Another similarity is the fact that some recipes (Lasagna for instance) contain references to other recipes that form the components. So you have to look up the white sauce recipe, and the tomato sauce recipe, etc. The results are delicious, and the instructions are clear, and the recipes are well within the reach of the average home cook. Unlike a certain infamous celebrity chef compilation I used to own that contained recipes that contained expensive exotic ingredients, were obviously never tested, and failed spectacularly.