Cooking Basics For Dummies

Introduces utensils like julienne slicer. Teaches how to do things like "fold". This book is needed by girls whose moms didn't bother to apprentice.Easy to read .

This is one of the best books available for anyone who doesn't know the first thing about cooking. Every technique is explained clearly. The book is organized well and has easy recipes for trying out what you have learned. It's more of an instruction book than a cookbook, but there are plenty of recipes as well. This book is great at demystifying cooking processes. I really love it and it has already become my cooking bible. Highly recommended if you have cooking anxiety!

It was a gift. Good quality. I thumbed through it and seemed very on par with the title.

This is a great cookbook. Has plenty of good recipes and even explains how to organize your pantry. I recommend for beginners and even intermediate level cooking.

Great book for an amateur cook such as myself...very well written and with a broad array of easy to prepare recipes...I would recommend this book for anyone who needs brushing up on the basics as well as entry level cooks like myself.

Basic things are left out such as how to actually cook a burger

Purchased this for our father who had never been in the kitchen. He loves it!

Bought this for my sister as a gift since she wasn't as involved in the kitchen as I was growing up. It was kind of a joke, but she loves reading it, and I actually enjoyed poking through it as well.