The New Cooking School Cookbook: Fundamentals
About this product
Learn how to cook just about anything with this easy-to-follow cookbook for beginners—featuring 80 themed courses, 400 recipes, and 200+ kitchen hacks and skills for cooking at home!
Go to cooking school in your own kitchen! In this cookbook for beginners and experienced cooks, America’s Test Kitchen teaches you cooking basics, from poaching the perfect egg to making Italian pasta from scratch. Learn how to cook with:
• 80+ focused courses, from Pizza and Fried Rice to Fish on the Grill
• Insights on cooking techniques, key takeaways, and the food science of each course
• Demonstrations of a wide range of skills, progressing from basic to more advanced
• Easy-to-digest sections, so you can stop reading and start cooking!
• Infographic pages that dive deeper into each recipe and their ingredients
Why should you salt food at multiple stages during the cooking process? How is olive oil really produced, and why do mushrooms benefit from water when sauteing? Come learn all this and more with The New Cooking School —your ultimate guide to cooking basics and kitchen hacks for cooking at home. Read more
Editor's Take
Amazon reviewers rate this cookbook very highly and describe it as thorough, well organized, and especially useful for learning fundamentals and techniques. Amazon review snippets mention that the instructions are easy to follow, the pictures help clarify tricky steps, and the book is packed with useful content.
On Reddit, users repeatedly recommend it as a strong choice for beginner or developing cooks, praising the detailed photos, clear explanations, and teaching style. Reddit comments also frame it as a good option for someone who wants more than a basic recipe collection.
Goodreads community reviews are mixed but generally positive, with readers noting that it covers classic cooking basics while still feeling more instructional than a standard cookbook. A review blog also highlights it as a strong beginner cookbook and points to positive customer feedback about the results people are getting from it.
For video content, search results surfaced at least one YouTube video specifically about this title, including an unboxing or overview-style video focused on the cookbook.
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Specifications
| Publisher | America's Test Kitchen |
| Publication date | November 16, 2021 |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 680 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1948703866 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1948703864 |
| Item Weight | 4.47 pounds |
| Dimensions | 8.62 x 1.42 x 11.18 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #18,989 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #53 in Cooking Encyclopedias #66 in Cooking, Food & Wine Reference (Books) #155 in Quick & Easy Cooking (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (1,520) |
