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500 terrific
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How to Cook Everything: The Basics
See how easy and enjoyable cooking can be—and learn all the fundamental techniques and lessons—with these 185 building-block recipes and 1,000 beautiful, instructive photographs.
The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living
Kitchen Express
Kitchen Express, my newest book, is a collection of 101 incredibly fast and easy recipes for each season—404 in all. All the recipes are presented in the simplest form possible and readily executed by anyone who’s done some cooking.
Food Matters
My newest book describes how a few simple dietary tweaks can help you lose weight, slow global warming, reduce environmental degradation, help stop cruelty to farm animals, AND save money.
How to Cook Everything (Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition)
The latest (and dare-I-say-it: greatest) in the How to Cook Everything family, just out this past fall. It's big, it's red, it's the one cookbook you need.
How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
The big green book that introduces everyone—not just vegetarians, but lessmeatarians—to the amazing world of cooking without meat.
How to Cook Everything
The original How to Cook Everything (affectionately known as Big Yellow), celebrating its tenth anniversary and now available in paperback.
Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking
My first book, and a still-reliable A-to-Z overview of all of the fish you're likely to find in any market, with recipes for each.
The Best Recipes in the World
As you might guess from its title, this book brings together over a thousand easy, essential, and delicious recipes from every continent (except Antarctica).