Where cooking begins : uncomplicated recipes to make you a great cook

Summary: The indispensable recipes and streamlined cooking techniques in Where Cooking Begins are an open invitation to dive into Carla Lalli Music's laid-back cooking style. The food director at Bon Appetit, Music creates intuitive recipes inspired by the meals she makes at home for her family and friends and the joy she takes in feeding them. Here, too, is her guide to the six essential cooking methods that will show you how to make everything without over-complicating anything--and every recipe includes suggestions for swaps and substitutions, so you'll never feel stuck or stymied. Where Cooking Begins is also the first recent cookbook to connect the way we shop to the way we cook. Music's modern approach--pick up your fresh ingredients a few times a week, and fill your pantry with staples bought online--will make you want to click on a burner and slide out a cutting board the minute you get home. The no-fail techniques, textured recipes, and strategies in Where Cooking Begins will make you a great cook.--Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9780525573357
ISBN: 0525573356
ISBN: 0525573348
ISBN: 9780525573340
Physical Description: 271 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1. The strategy : Cooking begins here. I've had a lot of lives as a cook -- The case for small-batch cooking -- A new way to shop -- The zoned-out kitchen -- Pared-down pots, pans, and appliances -- How to live forever on fewer spices -- Spin it to win it -- Part 2. The techniques : Salt and pepper cooking. Sauté -- Pan-roast -- Steam -- Boil and simmer -- Confit -- Slow-roast -- Pastry dough -- Part 3. The recipes : Cook with abandon. Starring produce -- Egg-centric -- Pasta and grains -- Chicken lots of ways, and a duck -- Fishes and other sea creatures -- Main meats -- Sunday soups and brothy beans -- Basic baker's sweets.