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How to Slice an Onion: Cooking Basics and Beyond--Hundreds of Tips, Techniques, Recipes, Food Facts, and Folklore

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This book is all the things you wish your mother had taught you in the kitchen, but she probably didn't. Neither did I, as a matter of fact, which is why I got copies for both of my 20-something sons. I'm also getting a few copies as gifts for college grads, and even one friend who just turned 40 and says he wants to cook for himself for the first time. It's packed with good ideas and information--some of it things that I am learning for the first time, even though I've been cooking for 25 years!

This super smart, practical, unpretentious little book is great not only for new cooks, but for old ones (like me). Cooking for a family large or small is different from cooking for one or two in lots of ways - for starters, motivation & appetites are way different & this book takes us by the hand & reintroduces us to the basic pleasures & purposes of cooking. Rules are rare, like "Don't put your knives in the dishwasher," no impossible standards or expensive equipment, just day-to-day easy, accessible & non-time-consuming sessions in the kitchen with an experienced, humorous, loving friend who also chats w/you about the stuff you're doing together. I LOVE this book.