Cooking Reference

Super Baby Food

Completely Revised and Updated edition of the best-selling Super Baby Food! 2014 Family Choice Award Winner, Gold /1st Place winner Feathered Quill Award in the non-fiction Informational Category, Gold Medal Winner of 2013 Mom’s Choice Award in the Parenting Health, Nutrition, Fitness & Safety category. Parents know that you get only one shot to feed your baby …

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Dinner Made Simple: 35 Everyday Ingredients, 350 Easy Recipes

Think you’ll never win at weeknight cooking? Think again. Your favorite ingredients are deliciously reimagined in Real Simple’s latest cookbook that shows you how to spin 35 family staples into hundreds of hassle-free dishes. Organized from apples to zucchini, Dinner Made Simple is filled with 350 easy, quick dishes-many ready in 30 minutes or less-to help you get …

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The Useful Book: 201 Life Skills They Used to Teach in Home Ec and Shop

A modern and energetically designed encyclopedia of DIY with everything you need to know to roll up your sleeves and cook it, build it, sew it, clean it, or repair it yourself. In other words, everything you would have learned from your shop and home ec teachers, if you’d had them.The Useful Book features 138 practical projects and …

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Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking

Special offer: Order Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking and the 2017 companion wall calendar through Amazon.com and receive $15 off of the book while supplies last. See full product description below for details.   Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking is an encyclopedic treatment of cooking. Its six volumes of 2,438 pages …

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Mom and Me Cookbook

Featuring basic cooking techniques and tips, simple first recipes, and tasty, nutritious meal ideas, this new cookbook is perfect for children who want to help their parents prepare a yummy array of favorite …

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The Best of America’s Test Kitchen 2017: The Year’s Best Recipes, Equipment Reviews, and Tastings

 The Best of America’s Test Kitchen 2017 is a must-have collection of America’s Test Kitchen’s best recipes of the year, compiled from the hundreds of recipes that appeared in print in our magazines and books and on our television shows. Inside this year’s annual, you’ll find Cider-Braised Pork Roast, Cheesy Corn Casserole, Candied Sweet Potatoes, Cast-Iron Calzone, and our Ultimate Charcoal-Grilled Steaks. And we didn’t forget about dessert. From Cherry Clafouti and So-Cal Churros to Swiss Hazelnut Cake and Old-Fashioned Vanilla Frozen Custard, you’ll find all manner of sweet treats included. Our best tastings and testings of the year are here, too. Do carbon-steel skillets live up to the all-in-one hype? What are the qualities of a great supermarket balsamic vinegar? And what should you look for when buying a food processor? For the answers to these questions, …

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The Vegetarian Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity with Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Legumes, Nuts, Seeds, and More, Based on the Wisdom of Leading American Chefs

Throughout time, people have chosen to adopt a vegetarian or vegan diet for a variety of reasons, from ethics to economy to personal and planetary well-being. Experts now suggest a new reason for doing so: maximizing flavor – which is too often masked by meat-based stocks or butter and cream. The Vegetarian Flavor Bible is an essential guide …

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How to Cook Everything Fast: A Better Way to Cook Great Food

Homemade wonton soup in 30 minutes. Chicken Parmesan without dredging and frying. Fruit crisp on the stovetop. The secret to cooking fast is cooking smart—choosing and preparing fresh ingredients efficiently. In How to Cook Everything Fast, Mark Bittman provides a game plan for becoming a better, more intuitive cook while you wake up your weekly meal routine with …

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Good Eats 3: The Later Years

As Good Eats enjoys its 14th season on the Food Network, its popularity continues unabated. Fans can’t get enough of Alton Brown’s wildly inventive, science-geeky, food-loving spirit. It’s no wonder, then, that the first two volumes in STC’s Good Eats series were New York Times bestsellers. Like Volumes 1 and 2, Good Eats 3: The Later Years packs …

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