Now You're Cooking: Everything a Beginner Needs To Know To Start Cooking Today

by Elaine Corn

As tens of thousands of satisfied readers have found, Now You're Cooking is the perfect book for the beginning cook. Elaine Corn takes nothing for granted in this upbeat, completely unintimidating book. She teaches you how to hold a knife before she tells you how to cut an onion. She shows you what a saucepan looks like. She explains techniques other cookbooks assume you were born knowing, like how to wash lettuce and how to peel a potato. Her 150 recipes are easy to follow and impressive to serve, and they all taste great.

Critics agree, with comments like "the next best thing to having a good home cook guiding you through a meal, step by step" and "the best beginner's guide on the market." More reviews

So do the juries of the nation's most prestigious cookbook awards; Now You're Cooking won both the IACP Julia Child Award and the James Beard Award as the best general cookbook of the year.

Hardcover, two-color throughout, 6" x 9", 320 pages, $24.95. ISBN 1-883791-00-6

Ready for the next step? Try Elaine's sequel, Now You're Cooking For Company.

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