Learning the Basics: A Home Cook's Guide to the Kitchen: A step-by-step guide to learning the basics

This book is designed to help the beginning cook and the cook with some experience to learn the basic skills taught to the professional cook. The book is written to follow the same sequence of skills building as taught in most professional culinary schools.In addition to over 100 foundation recipes, the book includes chapters on Nutrition, Food Safety, Equipping the Kitchen, Knife Skills and Tips and Tricks