How to Cook Everything: Easy Weekend Cooking

How to Cook Everything

by Mark Bittman, Alan Witschonke (Illustrator)

Cook something special this weekend!

Classic Beef Stew. Bread Pudding. Lamb Shanks with Tomatoes and Olives. Chocolate Mousse. Weekends are when you can indulge yourself a little, and with How to Cook Everything(TM): Easy Weekend Cooking, you can enjoy making delicious comfort food favorites and exciting specialty dishes.

Mark Bittman, the award-winning author of the bestselling kitchen classic How to Cook Everything(TM), shares his favorite simple-and infinitely flexible-weekend recipes. You'll be able to prepare bountiful brunches, fun outdoor meals, family feasts, even dinner parties. 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 Lunch Buffet, a Summer Weekend Cookout, a Weekend Dinner with Good Friends, and more
* At-a-glance icons highlighting recipes also good for weekdays

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

144 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 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

[Everton Forrester · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good book for beginning cooks. It's something I'd give as a wedding present.