num_pages: 336
description: Beloved food writer and social media star Andy Baraghani helps you define and develop your personal cooking styleand become the cook you want to bein more than 100 recipes.Andy Baraghani peeled hundreds of onions at Chez Panisse as a teenage intern honed his perfectly balanced saladmaking skills at Estela in New York and developed recipes in the test kitchens of Saveur Tasting Table and Bon Apptit. It took him all those years to figure out the cook he wanted to be: a cook who is true to his Persian heritage a fresh-vegetable lover a citrus superfan and an always-hungry world traveler. In The Cook You Want to Be Baraghani shows home cooks on how to hone their own cooking styles by teaching the techniques and unexpected flavor combinations that maximize flavor in minimal time. At Bon Apptit Baraghani created a bevy of viral recipesfrom Tahini Ranch to Fall-Apart Caramelized Cabbagethat became household staples. Here he follows up with more umami-rich dishes beautiful and restaurant-worthy meals (that take half the time) and well-known dishes recast in utterly delicious ways. Among his debut cookbooks 100 recipes new surefire hits include Caramelized Sweet Potatoes with Browned Butter Harissa; Sticky Spicy Basil Shrimp; and Tangy Pomegranate-Chicken. Cooks will find inspiration to riff on quick meals for hurried weeknights condiments galore and memorable meals to impress dinner guests. In essays throughout the book Baraghani shares convictions (why everyone must make his beloved Persian egg dish kuku sabzi) and lessons to live by (the importance of salting fish before cooking it). The Cook You Want to Be is a trove of go-to recipes and knowledge stunning photographs and delicious simple home cooking for modern times.
language: English
title: The Cook You Want to Be: Everyday Recipes to Impress
publisher: Lorena Jones Books