Comments on: How to Cook Everything – Book Review http://www.eatingcleveland.com/2009/04/03/how-to-cook-everything-bittman/ Cleveland Food Blog - Cleveland's Chubbiest Blog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:51:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff Hershberger http://www.eatingcleveland.com/2009/04/03/how-to-cook-everything-bittman/comment-page-1/#comment-4327 Jeff Hershberger Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:52:44 +0000 http://www.eatingcleveland.com/2009/04/03/how-to-cook-everything-bittman/#comment-4327 I'm in complete agreement. Our copy of _Everything_ is over ten years old. Risotto is actually a really good example - I had to teach myself to make it by looking for common features in several different recipes. Here's another: I learned to roast a chicken from _Roasting_ by Barbara Kafka. She presents it as a super-simple, adaptible recipe; she tells you what parts are essential and what can be changed. That alone was worth the price of the book. I’m in complete agreement. Our copy of _Everything_ is over ten years old. Risotto is actually a really good example – I had to teach myself to make it by looking for common features in several different recipes.

Here’s another: I learned to roast a chicken from _Roasting_ by Barbara Kafka. She presents it as a super-simple, adaptible recipe; she tells you what parts are essential and what can be changed. That alone was worth the price of the book.

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