How to Cook Everything: Quick Cooking

How to Cook Everything

by Mark Bittman, Alan Witschonke (Illustrator)

Make a quick home-cooked meal tonight!

Ziti with Creamy Gorgonzola Sauce. Shrimp Marinara. Broiled or Grilled Chicken with Pesto. Stir-Fried Spicy Beef with Basil. With How to Cook Everything(TM): Quick Cooking, great-tasting, satisfying dishes like these can be made in 30 minutes or less!

Mark Bittman, the award-winning author of the bestselling kitchen classic How to Cook Everything(TM), shares his favorite simple-and infinitely flexible-quick recipes. You'll be able to prepare family-pleasing everyday meals, spur-of-the-moment dinners for friends, even special-occasion feasts. To inspire you and help you plan your meals, you'll find Bittman's straight talk on cooking and special features,
* Creative recipe variations and ideas
* Tips for shopping, preparing, and cooking the recipes
* Illustrations to demystify trickier techniques
* Menu suggestions for a Weeknight Family Dinner Classic, an Elegant Dinner Party, and more
* At-a-glance icons highlighting recipes done in 20 minutes or less

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food

144 pages, Paperback

First published August 8, 2003

About the author

MARK BITTMAN is one of the country's best-known and most widely respected food writers. His How to Cook Everything books, with one million copies in print, are a mainstay of the modern kitchen. Bittman writes for the Opinion section of New York Times on food policy and cooking, and is a columnist for the New York Times Magazine. His "The Minimalist" cooking show, based on his popular NYT column, can be seen on the Cooking Channel. His most recent book, VB6, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list in its first week on sale.

Reviews

[Carolyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good quick things. I scanned a few before I returned it.

[Nealhonda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful. The first cookbook that I was able to reliably cook from. I found that every single recipe tastes wonderful without tweaking. This is a huge accomplishment. I feel comfortable making this for guests without trying first. Yeah mark bittman!!

[Allahditta · Rating 3 out of 5]

I made it. Fast food