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One of The New Yorker’s Fifteen Essential Cookbooks • A New York Times, WBUR Here & Now, and National Post Best Cookbook of 2023 • An NPR 2023 “Books We Love” Pick • One of the Guardian UK’s Five Best Food Books of 2023
A culinary companion to simplify cooking while making it more enjoyable, The Secret of Cooking is packed with solutions for how to make life in the kitchen work better for you, whether you’re cooking for yourself or for a crowd.
Do you wish you could cook more, but don’t know where to start? Bee Wilson has spent years collecting cooking “secrets”: ways of speeding cooking up or slowing it down, strategies for days when you are stretched for time, and other ideas for when you can luxuriate in kitchen therapy. Bee holds out a hand to anyone who wants doable, delicious recipes, the kind of unfussy food that makes every day taste better: quick feasts from a can of beans; fast, medium, and slow ragus; and seven ways to cook a carrot.
Alongside thoughts on how to cook when you’re alone, with children, or just plain tired, Bee offers 140 recipes including:
the simplest chicken stew even the pickiest of eaters (aka children) will loveZucchini and Herb Fritters, a Grated Tomato and Butter Pasta Sauce (with or without shrimp), and other ways of making your box grater work for yousalads to savor, like a tuna salad with anchovy dressingleisurely projects like an Aromatic All-Purpose Curry Powder and quicker food for friends (try Bulgar and Eggplant Pilaf with pistachio and lemon)the loveliest red curry sauce you can make in your instant potuniversal desserts, or those gluten-free and dairy-free sweets that you can serve no matter who comes over, like a Vegan Pear, Lemon, and Ginger Cake
With advice on seasoning, cleaning up, and choosing the best equipment, Wilson reimagines modern cooking and brings the spark back into everyday meals. As Bee says, “There’s still magic in the kitchen, if you know where to look.”
Shall we cook?
75 full-color photographs
From the Publisher
Green Salad with Drinkable Vinaigrette
Roasting Dish Chicken
Hazelnut Waffles
Zucchini and Herb Fritters
Smoky Lamb Chops
Tasha’s Never Fail Chocolate Cake
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company (September 26, 2023)
Language : English
Hardcover : 432 pages
ISBN-10 : 0393867633
ISBN-13 : 978-0393867633
Item Weight : 3 pounds
Dimensions : 7.4 x 1.5 x 10.3 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book heartful and informative, with useful hints and tips throughout. They appreciate the real-world cooking advice and well-written content, with one customer noting it reads like a novel.
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