Half cookbook, half kitchen handbook: recipes, real kitchens and practical advice for cooking well at home
Recipes and a kitchen handbook
The Kitchn is a popular home-cooking website, and this book, by its founder Sara Kate Gillingham and its editor Faith Durand, gathers its practical approach into one volume. Its starting point is that good cooking depends on more than recipes: it also depends on a kitchen that works, with the right tools, a well-stocked pantry and good habits for keeping things clean and organized.
Who will enjoy it
Home cooks, especially beginners and people setting up a new kitchen, who want reliable everyday recipes and practical kitchen advice.
What you will get
A friendly, practical guide that combines reliable everyday recipes with sensible advice on setting up, organizing and caring for a home kitchen.
The Kitchn Cookbook Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Nonfiction · Home cooking · Kitchen organization · Recipes
Length
304 pages · ≈ 9 h
More about this book
About half of the book is a kitchen handbook. It covers choosing essential tools and cookware, stocking a pantry, organizing small and large kitchens, cleaning and caring for equipment, and basic skills. It also tours real kitchens belonging to readers of the website, showing how people of all kinds make their spaces work, from tiny city apartments to large family homes, with plenty of practical ideas to borrow.
The other half offers around a hundred and fifty recipes, many of them lessons in core techniques, such as roasting a chicken, cooking a pot of beans, making a simple pan sauce or baking bread. There are breakfasts, weeknight dinners, vegetables, desserts and drinks, with clear instructions and helpful tips. The book is full of colour photographs. Experienced cooks may find some recipes familiar, but the practical advice is useful at any level.
Warm, practical and encouraging, a book that helps readers feel more at home in their own kitchens. It makes a good gift for someone setting up a first home, and it won a James Beard Award. Co-written with Faith Durand. About 304 pages in the Clarkson Potter hardcover.
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