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The Basic Gourmet

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Culinate, Inc.

The Basic Gourmet

100 Foolproof Recipes and Essential Techniques for the Beginning Cook

Overview

Learning to cook can be like learning to ride a bicycle. Since kitchens don’t come with training wheels, lots of people skin their knees in the process of getting started. The Basic Gourmet comes to the rescue with a wealth of valuable tips and simple techniques that make cooking both fun and productive.

Selected contents

Green vegetables kids will eat

Fun, not fearsome

Eight kid-friendly veg tips.

Features

One chicken, four meals

Buy a good bird and reap the rewards

The Produce Diaries

Muskmelons

Honeydew and cantaloupe

Unexplained Bacon

Green goddess

The subtle pleasures of Japanese green tea

Health+Food

How to find real food

Tips for improving your plate

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