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The New Basics Cookbook

By: Sheila Lukins, Julee Rosso

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Paperback | 10 January 1989 | Edition Number 1

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849 Pages

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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.

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Preface: Our Next Chapter	p. ix
Introduction: The Basics Become New	p. xii
Fresh Beginnings
Amusements	p. 2
At Table	p. 40
Intermezzo
Beautiful Soup	p. 84
Pizza Pizzazz	p. 110
Prime Time Pasta	p. 127
The Risotto Rage	p. 150
Salad Daze	p. 159
The Vegetable Patch
Vegetable Magic	p. 194
Staple Stars
Going With Grains and Beans	p. 308
The Fish Market
A School of Fish	p. 334
Seashore Shellfish	p. 369
Which Came First?
The Chicken (and the Game Hen and the Turkey and the Duck)	p. 392
The Elegant Egg	p. 433
Fire up for Grilling
Hot Off the Grill	p. 456
The Meat Market
Meat Know-How	p. 482
Here's the Beef	p. 486
Chili, Burgers, Meat Loaves, and Hash	p. 516
The South of France	p. 529
The Pig Stands Alone	p. 539
Season to Taste: Herb and Spice Chart	p. 556
For the Love of Lamb	p. 564
Bravo Italia!	p. 581
Taming Game	p. 590
Bread and Cheese Please
A Fresh Loaf	p. 612
The Cheese Course	p. 634
And Everything Nice
Chocolate, the Magnificent Obsession	p. 650
Cake and Coffee	p. 666
The Fruit Orchard	p. 684
Island Fruits	p. 706
Desert Fruits	p. 712
The All-American Pie	p. 714
Nuts About Nuts	p. 735
Cookies and Milk	p. 738
The Proof of the Pudding Is in the Creme Brulee	p. 748
The Soda Fountain	p. 754
The New Basics
Microwave Miracles	p. 766
The Basics	p. 775
The Panic-Proof Kitchen	p. 786
Basic Pantry	p. 790
Glossary of Cooking Terms	p. 792
Conversion Chart	p. 800
Bibliography	p. 801
Index	p. 805
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