Is there a 'bible' for cooking that would give me a good foundation?

A book for a beginner that would teach me the foundation of cooking, and also has good recipes?

Preferably for European food

  1. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    europeans didn't need one as they had fathers

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      I think you mean mothers unless you had 2 dads

  2. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    i wondered this too. I want a book that has tips and not so much actual recipes. One time a chef on tv said "rosemary, loves chicken" and that shit is so true. Changed my life. fr fr no cap

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Flavor bible

  3. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    The French Chef by Julia Child
    The Frugal Gourmet by Jeff Smith
    Quick & Simple by Jaques Pepin

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      That one

      Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything. Exactly what it says on the tin.

      The Joy of Cooking

      thoughts on this?

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/lp6gh3/professional_chefs_what_skills_should_a_home_cook/goa14mp/

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        I think you should go back.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        Harold McGee is legit but not beginner stuff

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          what would be a good beginner book that also teaches the foundation then?

          • 1 month ago
            Anonymous

            The French Chef by Julia Child

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        its a good take
        it amounts to understand WHY shit works then go from there

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      It's a good book OP has pictured.
      James Beard himself has several good books OP.

      Frugal Gourmet is underrated for sure. He taught me so much.

  4. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    That one

  5. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything. Exactly what it says on the tin.

  6. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    The Joy of Cooking

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      This and Mastering the Art of French Cooking are kind of the 2 "old school" default cookbooks you would expect to find in someones kitchen.

      https://i.imgur.com/04b7B2P.jpg

      A book for a beginner that would teach me the foundation of cooking, and also has good recipes?

      Preferably for European food

      would be a good addition too.

      I remember there was a really fancy published box set cookbook that came out like 4 or 5 years ago that was really expensive that was kind of made to be the end-all-be-all but i cant remember the name of it. Pretty sure it was a 3 or 4 volume set that was over $100.
      If you're only gonna get one, the joy of cooking would be my choice, btw. You can prob. find it at most used book stores for a few bucks.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        Modernist cuisine. You can pirate it and everything else listed here if your not retarted. But which are worth reading....

  7. 1 month ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      what rubbish

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >t. fag

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous
    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >pussy
      >smelling/tasting sweet
      Is gordon a virgin?

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >pussy
      >smelling/tasting sweet
      Is gordon a virgin?

      it's from a book by anton lavey, the cringelord supreme who founded the church of satanism
      no doubt the whole thing was written as cope over one of his cult whores telling him his dick smelled like blue cheese

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      I can't wait to order a salad in a restaurant and exclaim "this salad tastes exactly like a big sloppy pussy" to impress the kitchen staff

  8. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    "On Food and Cooking" by Harold McGee from 1984 is the standard that the modern cooking paradigm of food and cooking by way of science is based on. It is the most important and influential culinary book since Escoffier.

  9. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Professional cooking by Wayne Gisslen.
    It’s a textbook rather than a cookbook, but it goes through the foundations very well and has some great recipes.

  10. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    cooking books are useless, what made me a great cook was watching chef john and replicating his recipes and methods + being forced to cook every day
    practice makes you a good cook, also invest in quality equipment and ingredients, can't make good food with shit

  11. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    ooh weee

  12. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Mark Bitmann. Dorie Greenspan's Around my French Table and Baking with Dorie. I Dream of Dinner is solid too.

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