How to Cook Everything: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food

There are few books around that are so thorough and comprehensive. Mark Bittman’s award-winning How to Cook Everything has helped countless home cooks discover the rewards of simple cooking. The best part of this book is that the recipes require ingredients which are likely to appear in most pantries, and equipment which most amateur cooks will already have. Therefore, each recipes is simple, achievable and delicious.

With 2,000 delicious recipes to choose from, it is unlikely that you will be short on choice. There is an index of “Essential Recipes” which point you to Bittman’s favorite dishes in each chapter, and many new kitchen techniques are demonstrated which will no doubt expand your repertoire. If you have ever found yourself in a recipe-rut, this book will most likely get your out of it.

With hundreds of new recipes you can learn to make great dishes such as Beer-and-Butter Chicken Wings, Roasted Corn Chowder, BLT Salad, Paella with Chicken and Chorizo, Caramelized French Toast, and Popcorn Brittle. It’ll even help you to select the best inexpensive fish, for example, mackerel is versatile, tasty, healthy, and plentiful.

Even the most experienced cooks out there are likely to learn something, therefore this is a must have in all kitchens.