num_pages: 224
description: An empowering collection of 100 delicious practical recipes that will teach young adults and kitchen novices how to cook for themselvesfrom a James Beard Award-winning chef and author.Acclaimed chef TV star and dedicated father Hugh Acheson taught his teenage daughters that cooking is an essential life skill. But he also knew that people don't need to know how to cook like a chef to feed themselves and their friends. Really they only need to learn a handful of skills to enjoy a lifetime of cooking.So in How to Cook Hugh distills the cooking lessons that everyone should master into twenty-five basic building blocks: easy-to-grasp recipes that can turn anyone young or old into a confident home cook. Each of these recipes teaches a fundamental skill such as roasting or whisking together a classic vinaigrette and each stands alone as a stellar back-pocket basic. After laying the groundwork How to Cook then offers recipes that expand on these foundations whether it's remixing the flavors of one of the basic recipes or combining a couple of them to show you how you can produce a lifetime's worth of dishes.How to Cook is the book Hugh is going to give his kids when they leave home knowing that with these 100 recipes they'll be prepared to feed themselves for the rest of their lives.
language: English
title: How to Cook: Building Blocks and 100 Simple Recipes for a Lifetime of Meals: A Cookbook
publisher: Clarkson Potter