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1) The 4-hour chef: the simple path to cooking like a pro, learning anything, and living the good life

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Building upon Timothy Ferriss's internationally successful "4-hour" franchise, "The 4-Hour Chef" transforms the way we cook, eat, and learn. Featuring recipes and cooking tricks from world-renowned chefs, and interspersed with the radically counterintuitive advice Ferriss's fans have come to expect, "The 4-Hour Chef" is a practical but unusual guide to mastering food and cooking, whether you are a seasoned pro or a blank-slate novice.

2) The America's test kitchen cooking school cookbook: everything you need to know to become a great cook

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America's Test Kitchen (Firm)

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"After 20 years in the test kitchen, we've discovered the best methods for approaching essential cooking techniques and a wide range of recipes. We also know what questions home cooks will have, and what problems they'll face. In this landmark project, we share everything we've learned, from simple knife skills and cookery fundamentals, such as whipping egg whites, to perfecting recipes like pepper-curated filet's mignon and layer cakes"--Amazon.com....

3) Cook like a pro: recipes & tips for home cooks

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Garten, Ina

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Barefoot Contessa cookbook

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As America's most trusted and beloved cookbook author, Ina Garten--the Barefoot Contessa--has taught millions of people how to cook. A home cook at heart, Ina knows that cooking and entertaining can be difficult, so to make her recipes simple and streamlined, she tests and retests each recipe until it's as straightforward and delicious as possible. Although Ina is completely self-taught and doesn't consider herself to be a "professional" cook, she...

4) The flavor bible: the essential guide to culinary creativity, based on the wisdom of America's most imaginative chefs

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Page, Karen

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Great cooking goes beyond following a recipe--it's knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. Drawing on dozens of leading chefs' combined experience in top restaurants across the country, Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg present the definitive guide to creating "deliciousness" in any dish. Thousands of ingredient entries, organized alphabetically and cross-referenced, provide a treasure trove of spectacular...

5) The great cook: essential techniques and inspired flavors to make every dish better

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Briscione, James

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Learn how to cook more than 100 classic, all-time favorite dishes-and learn how to cook them perfectly. This cooking course in a book will show you how to confidently turn out a pie with a flaky, tender crust, make homemade pasta, and master a wow-the-crowd Coq Au Vin. Chef and culinary instructor James Briscione guides readers through 36 in-depth, recipe-oriented lessons: Roast chicken. Seafood. Layer Cakes. Each lesson is detailed with instructive...

6) How to cook everything: simple recipes for great food

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Bittman, Mark

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Updated to incorporate the latest tastes and cooking trends, a step-by-step guide to cooking includes more than two thousand contemporary recipes complemented by how-to information, tips on cooking techniques, and an expanded coverage of healthy foods.

7) The "I don't know how to cook" book: 300 great recipes you can't mess up!

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Kamberg, Mary-Lane

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Do you crave homemade French Toast, Eggplant Parmigiana, and Pecan Pie, but don't know the difference between broiling and baking? This book offers a crash course in cooking basics as well as lessons on creating everything from classic entrees to decadent desserts. Complete with step-by-step instructions, a glossary of cooking terms, and 60 brand-new recipes, you'll learn all there is to know about the kitchen as you make flavorful recipes like: Baked...

8) Joy of cooking

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Rombauer, Irma S

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John and Megan developed more than six hundred new recipes for this edition, tested and tweaked thousands of classic recipes, and updated every section of every chapter to reflect the latest ingredients and techniques available to today's home cooks. Their strategy for revising this edition was the same one Irma and Marion employed: Vet, research, and improve Joy's coverage of legacy recipes while introducing new dishes, modern cooking techniques,...

9) Learn with Betty: essential recipes and techniques to become a confident cook

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Crocker, Betty

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Aimed at both new as well as more experienced cooks who want to take their cooking to the next level, Learn with Betty teaches readers how to cook by presenting 62 delicious, on-trend recipes, each with a technique key to the recipe. Once the technique is mastered, readers can move on to five more recipes using that skill. Learn how to make Cold Brew Coffee, then create Cold Brew Coffee Pie and Cold Brew Coffee S'More Squares. Cross-references point...

10) Mastering my mistakes in the kitchen: learning to cook with 65 great chefs and over 100 delicious recipes

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Cowin, Dana

11) The new essentials cookbook: a modern guide to better cooking

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America's Test Kitchen

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Provides information to help home chefs build their cooking skills, learn new techniques, and become more confident in the kitchen through practical lessons combined with increasingly challenging recipes.

12) Prep-ahead meals from scratch: quick & easy batch cooking techniques and recipes that save you time and money

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Milham, Alea

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"Families are busier now more than ever, and nobody understands that better than busy mom and food blogger Alea Milham. With Prep-Ahead Meals from Scratch, she brings a unique batch cooking concept that will streamline weeknight family meals like never before. She shows you how to use simple prep-ahead techniques to stock your refrigerator with precooked ingredients that can be combined with fresh produce to easily create wholesome meals. Leave prepackaged...

13) Ruhlman's twenty: the ideas and techniques that will make you a better cook

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Ruhlman, Michael

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"Twenty" distills Ruhlman's decades of cooking, writing, and working with the world's greatest chefs into 20 essential ideas from ingredients to processes to attitude that are guaranteed to make every cook more accomplished.

14) Salt, fat, acid, heat: mastering the elements of good cooking

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Nosrat, Samin

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Whether you've never picked up a knife or you're an accomplished chef, there are only four basic factors that determine how good your food will taste. Salt, Fat, Acid, and Heat are the four cardinal directions of cooking, and they will guide you as you choose which ingredients to use and how to cook them, and they will tell you why last minute adjustments will ensure that food tastes exactly as it should. This book will change the way you think about...

15) Secrets of great second meals: flexible modern recipes that value time and limit waste

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Dickerman, Sara

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Discover the potential of your leftovers! Learn to cook smart, save time and money, and add new variety and flavor to your everday cooking.

16) The science of spice: understand flavor connections and revolutionize your cooking

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Farrimond, Stuart

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If you've ever wondered what to do with that unused jar of sumac, why some spices taste stronger than others, how to make your own garam masala, or simply which are the best spices for chicken, this inspirational guide has all the answers. Spice outlines the science behind the flavors and helps you choose, with greater confidence and intuition, how to use spices that perfectly complement each other. A "periodic table" of spices shows the connections...

17) Vegan 101: a vegan cookbook

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Bell, Heather

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Now more than ever, people are choosing to make vegan meals part of their regular rotation. However, it can be difficult to get started. Vegan 101: A Vegan Cookbook is your go-to crash course for preparing plant-focused meals that get an A+ in nutrition and taste. Here's what's on the syllabus: •100 recipes that highlight the joy and ease of vegan cooking •Go-To Recipes that kick-off each chapter with a popular vegan dish and three mouth-watering...

18) You suck at cooking: the absurdly practical guide to sucking slightly less at making food

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You already know the creator of the YouTube show You Suck at Cooking by his well-manicured hands and mysterious voice, and now you'll know him for this equally well-manicured and mysterious tome. It contains more than sixty recipes for beginner cooks and noobs alike, in addition to hundreds of paragraphs and sentences, as well as photos and drawings. You'll learn to cook with unintimidating ingredients in dishes like Broccoli Cheddar Quiche Cupcake...

19) 100 techniques: master a lifetime of cooking skills, from basic to bucket list

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America's Test Kitchen

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ATK 100

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"This book isn't meant to be a sequential cooking course, so dip into it wherever and however you like. Try one of the simple essentials that will make your everyday life easier and more enjoyable, like simmering a great tomato sauce or making a pan sauce for cutlets. Or invite some friends over to share in the success of a kitchen project you've always wanted to tackle, like achieving genuine Texas-style barbecue in a regular kettle grill or baking...

20) The new cooking school cookbook: fundamentals

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"Go to cooking school in your own kitchen with over 80 themed courses to learn more than 200 skills and cook 400 recipes. . . . More than 80 focused courses let you dive into your favorite topics, whether it's pizza, fried rice, fish on the grill, or birthday cake, and take a mini-bootcamp on the subject, each introduced by an ATK test cook."-- Go to cooking school in your own kitchen with the staff of American's Test Kitchen. They share themed courses...