How to Find Your Cooking Style

by Barbara Conable, Zach Selland (Illustrator)

How to Find Your Cooking Style is a classic workbook using instructional material and well-placed questions to assist the reader in discovering his or her own cooking style. Spaces are provided for answers to the questions. The workbook makes an excellent text for a class by the same title. Readers are guided to learn what they really like to eat, what they don't like to eat, what they can't eat, and what they choose not to eat. Then they learn what a cooking style is and begin the process of finding their own by inquiring of themselves whether they would like to eat like their ancestors, what their affinities and proclivities are with regard to cooking, whether emotion is the key to their cooking style, and what the role of region, the seasons, and their other interests might be. In Section Four of the book, they learn how to develop their style day to day, how to create their own recipes and recipe file, how to create a kitchen that fully reflects their style and supports it, and how to create a permanent shopping list based on their cooking style. In Section Five, readers explore their holiday cooking to get it just right, and in Section Six they learn to stay physically comfortable in the kitchen using expert advice on the matter; the book's author is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, an excellent means of training movement, including the movement of cooking. The book is light-hearted and entertaining, though the subject is a serious finding one's cooking style improves life immeasurably.

132 pages, Spiral-bound

Published December 15, 2008