Table Of ContentPreface: Our Next Chapter Introduction: The Basics Become New FRESH BEGINNINGS Amusements At Table INTERMEZZO Beautiful Soup Pizza Pizzazz Prime Time Pasta The Risotto Rage Salad Daze THE VEGETABLE PATCH Vegetable Magic STAPLE STARS Going with Grains and Beans THE FISH MARKET A School of Fish Seashore Shellfish WHICH CAME FIRST? The Chicken (and the Game Hen and the Turkey and the Duck) The Elegant Egg FIRE UP THE GRILLING Hot off the Grill THE MEAT MARKET Meat Know-How Here's the Beef Chili, Burgers, Meat Loaves, and Hash The South of France The Pig Stands Alone Season to Taste: Herb and Spice Chart For the Love of Lamb Bravo Italia! Taming Game BREAD AND CHEESE PLEASE A Fresh Loaf The Cheese Course AND EVERYTHING NICE Chocolate, the Magnificent Obsession Cake and Coffee The Fruit Orchard Island Fruits Desert Fruits The All-American Pie Nuts About Nuts Cookies and Milk The Proof of the Pudding is the Creme Brulee The Soda Fountain THE NEW BOOKS Microwave Miracles The Basics The Panic-Proof Kitchen Basic Pantry Glossary of Cooking Terms Conversion Chart Bibliography IndeX
SynopsisIt's the 1.8-million-copy bestselling cookbook that's become a modern-day classic. Beginning cooks will learn how to boil an egg. Experienced cooks will discover new ingredients and inspired approaches to familiar ones. Encyclopedic in scope, rich with recipes and techniques, and just plain fascinating to read, The New Basics Cookbook is the indispensable kitchen reference for all home cooks.This is a basic cookbook that reflects today's kitchen, today's pantry, today's taste expectations. A whimsically illustrated 875-recipe labor of love, The New Basics features a light, fresh, vibrantly flavored style of American cooking that incorporates the best of new ingredients and cuisines from around the world. Over 30 chapters include Fresh Beginnings; Pasta, Pizza, and Risotto; Soups; Salads; every kind of Vegetable; Seafood; The Chicken and the Egg; Grilling from Ribs to Surprise Paella; Grains; Beef; Lamb, Pork; Game; The Cheese Course, and Not Your Mother's Meatloaf. Not to mention 150 Desserts! Plus, tips, lore, menu ideas, at-a-glance charts, trade secrets, The Wine Dictionary, a Glossary of Cooking Terms, The Panic-Proof Kitchen, and much more. Main Selection of the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service and the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books. Main Selection of the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service and the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books., The modern day classic from the authors of The Silver Palate Cookbook. In one spectacular volume, Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins, authors of the acclaimed Silver Palate Cookbook and Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook , celebrate the tastes, ingredients, techniques, and dishes that comprise the best of our cuisine in all its abundant pleasure and variety. Over 30 chapters include Fresh Beginnings; Pasta, Pizza, and Risotto; Soups; Salads; every kind of Vegetable; Seafood; The Chicken and the Egg; Grilling from Ribs to Surprise Paella; Grains; Beef; Lamb, Pork; Game; The Cheese Course, and Not Your Mother's Meatloaf. Not to mention 150 Desserts Plus, tips, lore, menu ideas, at-a-glance charts, trade secrets, The Wine Dictionary, a Glossary of Cooking Terms, The Panic-Proof Kitchen, and much more. * 875 Recipes * 33 Chapters * llustrations Throughout * Microwave Miracles * Entertaining Tips * The Panic-Proof Kitchen * The New Basics Pantry * Glossary of Cooking and Wine Terms * At-a-Glance Charts: Meats; Fish; Herbs and Spices * Wild and Tame Mushrooms * Grains * Rice * Beans * And the Basic Basics from the Right Cut of Meat to How to Choose a Turnip, The modern day classic from the authors of The Silver Palate Cookbook. In one spectacular volume, Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins, authors of the acclaimed Silver Palate Cookbook and Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, celebrate the tastes, ingredients, techniques, and dishes that comprise the best of our cuisine in all its abundant pleasure and variety. Over 30 chapters include Fresh Beginnings; Pasta, Pizza, and Risotto; Soups; Salads; every kind of Vegetable; Seafood; The Chicken and the Egg; Grilling from Ribs to Surprise Paella; Grains; Beef; Lamb, Pork; Game; The Cheese Course, and Not Your Mother's Meatloaf. Not to mention 150 Desserts! Plus, tips, lore, menu ideas, at-a-glance charts, trade secrets, The Wine Dictionary, a Glossary of Cooking Terms, The Panic-Proof Kitchen, and much more. * 875 Recipes * 33 Chapters * llustrations Throughout * Microwave Miracles * Entertaining Tips * The Panic-Proof Kitchen * The New Basics Pantry * Glossary of Cooking and Wine Terms * At-a-Glance Charts: Meats; Fish; Herbs and Spices * Wild and Tame Mushrooms * Grains * Rice * Beans * And the Basic Basics from the Right Cut of Meat to How to Choose a Turnip, It's the 1.8-million-copy bestselling cookbook that's become a modern-day classic. Beginning cooks will learn how to boil an egg. Experienced cooks will discover new ingredients and inspired approaches to familiar ones. Encyclopedic in scope, rich with recipes and techniques, and just plain fascinating to read, The New Basics Cookbook is the indispensable kitchen reference for all home cooks. This is a basic cookbook that reflects today's kitchen, today's pantry, today's taste expectations. A whimsically illustrated 875-recipe labor of love, The New Basics features a light, fresh, vibrantly flavored style of American cooking that incorporates the best of new ingredients and cuisines from around the world. Over 30 chapters include Fresh Beginnings; Pasta, Pizza, and Risotto; Soups; Salads; every kind of Vegetable; Seafood; The Chicken and the Egg; Grilling from Ribs to Surprise Paella; Grains; Beef; Lamb, Pork; Game; The Cheese Course, and Not Your Mother's Meatloaf. Not to mention 150 Desserts Plus, tips, lore, menu ideas, at-a-glance charts, trade secrets, The Wine Dictionary, a Glossary of Cooking Terms, The Panic-Proof Kitchen, and much more. Main Selection of the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service and the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books.