Britain's best-loved cookery teacher goes back to the very beginning, starting with how to boil an egg
Cooking from the very beginning
Delia Smith, Britain's best-selling cookery writer, designed How to Cook as a complete cookery course for people of all ages and abilities. Book One, which accompanied a BBC television series, starts with the simplest skills, including how to boil an egg, and builds from there with clear explanations, step-by-step photographs and recipes that work.
Who will enjoy it
Beginner cooks, students, anyone who wants to fill gaps in their basic skills, and fans of classic British home cooking.
What you will get
A clear, reassuring and trustworthy cookery course that teaches real basics from scratch, with careful explanations and recipes that turn beginners into confident home cooks.
Delia's How to Cook: Book One Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Nonfiction · Cookbook · Cooking basics · British cooking
Length
240 pages · ≈ 7 h
More about this book
Delia Smith had already taught several generations of British home cooks through her television programs and her famous Complete Cookery Course when she decided to start again from first principles. Her aim in How to Cook was to explain not just what to do but why, so that readers would understand the basics well enough to cook with confidence. The series was a huge success, and the opening episode on eggs famously sent egg sales soaring.
Book One begins with eggs, explaining how to boil, poach, scramble and fry them properly and how to make an omelette, and then moves on to other essential foundations of everyday cooking, such as bread, potatoes, rice and pasta. Each chapter opens with clear background on the ingredient and the method, followed by tested recipes. Step-by-step photographs show exactly what the food should look like at each stage, and Delia's calm, precise voice anticipates the questions beginners ask. Later volumes, Book Two and Book Three, extend the course to other areas of cooking.
Clear, encouraging and dependable. About 240 pages in the BBC Books hardcover.
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