The New Basics Cookbook
The New Basics Cookbook by Sheila Lukins, published by Workman Publishing on January 10, 1989, is a comprehensive culinary resource featuring 849 pages of recipes and cooking techniques. This cookbook caters to both beginning and experienced cooks, offering guidance on fundamental skills such as boiling an egg, while also introducing new ingredients and innovative approaches to familiar dishes. With a focus on modern American cooking, it reflects contemporary tastes and pantry staples.
Readers will find a diverse array of over 875 recipes organized into more than 30 chapters, covering everything from fresh salads and seafood to hearty meats and desserts. The New Basics Cookbook also includes helpful tips, menu ideas, and various cooking resources such as a glossary of terms and a wine dictionary. This edition serves as an indispensable reference for home cooks looking to enhance their culinary skills and explore a vibrant range of flavors and cooking methods.
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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.
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