The New Basics Cookbook

It's the 1.8-million-copy bestselling cookbook that's become a modern-day classic. Beginning cooks will learn how to boil an egg. Experienced cooks will discover new ingredients and inspired approaches to familiar ones. Encyclopedic in scope, rich with recipes and techniques, and just plain fascinating to read, The New Basics Cookbook is the indispensable kitchen reference for all home cooks.

This is a basic cookbook that reflects today's kitchen, today's pantry, today's taste expectations. A whimsically illustrated 875-recipe labor of love, The New Basics features a light, fresh, vibrantly flavored style of American cooking that incorporates the best of new ingredients and cuisines from around the world.

Over 30 chapters include Fresh Beginnings; Pasta, Pizza, and Risotto; Soups; Salads; every kind of Vegetable; Seafood; The Chicken and the Egg; Grilling from Ribs to Surprise Paella; Grains; Beef; Lamb, Pork; Game; The Cheese Course, and Not Your Mother's Meatloaf. Not to mention 150 Desserts! Plus, tips, lore, menu ideas, at-a-glance charts, trade secrets, The Wine Dictionary, a Glossary of Cooking Terms, The Panic-Proof Kitchen, and much more.

Main Selection of the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service and the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books.

In one spectacular volume, with 875 recipes, the authors celebrate the tastes, ingredients, techniques, and dishes that comprise the best of our cuisine.

Julee Rosso Miller co-authored the Silver Palate in 1979, and wrote The Silver Palate Cookbook in 1982, followed by The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook and The New Basics Cookbook. She also wrote Great Good Food and Fresh Start, and with her husband runs the Wickwood Inn in Saugatuck, Michigan.Sheila Lukins is one of America's best-known and best-loved food writers. She was cofounder of The Silver Palate take-out shop, which inspired a series of cookbooks and food products that changed the way we eat. She is the food editor of Parade magazine and lives in New York City.

Preface: Our Next Chapter

Introduction: The Basics Become New

FRESH BEGINNINGS

Amusements

At Table

INTERMEZZO

Beautiful Soup

Pizza Pizzazz

Prime Time Pasta

The Risotto Rage

Salad Daze

THE VEGETABLE PATCH

Vegetable Magic

STAPLE STARS

Going with Grains and Beans

THE FISH MARKET

A School of Fish

Seashore Shellfish

WHICH CAME FIRST?

The Chicken (and the Game Hen and the Turkey and the Duck)

The Elegant Egg

FIRE UP THE GRILLING

Hot off the Grill

THE MEAT MARKET

Meat Know-How

Here's the Beef

Chili, Burgers, Meat Loaves, and Hash

The South of France

The Pig Stands Alone

Season to Taste: Herb and Spice Chart

For the Love of Lamb

Bravo Italia!

Taming Game

BREAD AND CHEESE PLEASE

A Fresh Loaf

The Cheese Course

AND EVERYTHING NICE

Chocolate, the Magnificent Obsession

Cake and Coffee

The Fruit Orchard

Island Fruits

Desert Fruits

The All-American Pie

Nuts About Nuts

Cookies and Milk

The Proof of the Pudding is the Creme Brulee

The Soda Fountain

THE NEW BOOKS

Microwave Miracles

The Basics

The Panic-Proof Kitchen

Basic Pantry

Glossary of Cooking Terms

Conversion Chart

Bibliography

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