The New Basics Cookbook

By Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894803921
• ISBN13: 9780894803925
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 849 Pages
• Weight: 4.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 8.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

The NEW Basics is Informative and Inspirational

As much a revolution in American cooking as Julia Childs' first cookbook, this book is full of useful charts such as types of fish, their texture, flavor and substitutes. This is invaluable information given the limited selection of fresh fish at most grocery stores! And apples, who else will tell you which apple to use for pies, sauce, or salad? It is NOT Betty Crocker or Joy of Cooking, nor does it try to be. You won't necessarily...

The naysayers are wrong.

Some previous readers/reviewers claim that this cookbook is snooty, requires you to have a personal staff on hand, requires you to get expensive kitchenware, and forces you to go on expeditions for pricey, obscure ingredients. Well, I have found none of those things to be true. I am a destitute grad student who couldn't boil water until last year. Yet somehow, even I can manage to cook recipies from this cookbook on my...