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Cook This Book: Techniques That Teach and Recipes to Repeat: A Cookbook Hardcover – April 20, 2021
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ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, Food52, Taste of Home
“Surprising no one, Molly has written a book as smart, stylish, and entertaining as she is.”—Carla Lalli Music, author of Where Cooking Begins
If you seek out, celebrate, and obsess over good food but lack the skills and confidence necessary to make it at home, you’ve just won a ticket to a life filled with supreme deliciousness. Cook This Book is a new kind of foundational cookbook from Molly Baz, who’s here to teach you absolutely everything she knows and equip you with the tools to become a better, more efficient cook.
Molly breaks the essentials of cooking down to clear and uncomplicated recipes that deliver big flavor with little effort and a side of education, including dishes like Pastrami Roast Chicken with Schmaltzy Onions and Dill, Chorizo and Chickpea Carbonara, and of course, her signature Cae Sal. But this is not your average cookbook. More than a collection of recipes, Cook This Book teaches you the invaluable superpower of improvisation though visually compelling lessons on such topics as the importance of salt and how to balance flavor, giving you all the tools necessary to make food taste great every time. Throughout, you’ll encounter dozens of QR codes, accessed through the camera app on your smartphone, that link to short technique-driven videos hosted by Molly to help illuminate some of the trickier skills.
As Molly says, “Cooking is really fun, I swear. You simply need to set yourself up for success to truly enjoy it.” Cook This Book will help you do just that, inspiring a new generation to find joy in the kitchen and take pride in putting a home-cooked meal on the table, all with the unbridled fun and spirit that only Molly could inspire.
- Print length304 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherClarkson Potter
- Publication dateApril 20, 2021
- Dimensions8.5 x 1.04 x 10.51 inches
- ISBN-100593138279
- ISBN-13978-0593138274
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A modern, fun cookbook teaching essential cooking skills, techniques, and flavorful recipes to become a confident, creative home cook.Amazon editors say...
Molly Baz's new go-to will soon have even the most reluctant home cook hosting dinner parties like they were born to it.
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“Cook This Book is for anyone who wants to learn kitchen skills that stick.”—Esquire
“[Cook This Book is] packed with information about the principles of great flavor and instructions on technique.”—Salon
“Recipe developer Baz delivers an exciting crash course in cooking fundamentals via 95 recipes that don’t ‘ask too much of the home cook.’”—Publishers Weekly
“Cook This Book is devoted to teaching foundational kitchen info and basics that’ll help you cook efficiently.”—theSkimm
“Cook This Book is a syllabus for how to become a more technically-skilled cook.”—Epicurious
“The recipes in this book are dripping with deliciousness.”—Eat Your Books
“Whether you’re a novice or a pro, Molly makes you think about cooking in an exciting and modern way that is foolproof and easy to follow. This book will be your guide to mastering the basics, cooking with all the right flavors, and bringing delicious meals to the table every time without the guesswork.”—Bobby Berk, design expert and Emmy-nominated host of Netflix’s Queer Eye
“This certainly ain’t your grandma’s cookbook. I mean, I know I used to bake special M-shaped biscuits for Molly when she was a was a little girl, but I never expected it would come to this! With rich recipes and a design that just knock your socks off, this cookbook is simply vibrant. And BOOM . . . don’t even get me started about those innovative QR codes: all my technique-related fears, gone with a vid. The photographs are sooo good they make me want to eat the page! Now I may be a bit biased, but I know I’m not wrong.”—Doug Baz, Molly’s Dad
“Surprising no one, Molly has written a book as smart, stylish, and entertaining as she is. The recipes sound as good as they look, but it’s the extras that will make your cooking that much extra: her excellent explanations of how to balance flavors, the deep dive into the crunchy, spicy, and herbaceous condiments that will turn your dishes into taste sensations, and the instructional videos that bring every technique to life. I love this book as much as I love her (which is a lot!).”—Carla Lalli Music, author of Where Cooking Begins
“With its DIY approach to culinary expertise, this is a great starting point for home cooks wanting to develop flavor and technique.”—Library Journal
About the Author
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
I used to think that cooking from recipes was extremely un-cool. The way I saw it, recipes were for amateurs—those who needed hand-holding and couldn’t think for themselves in the kitchen. I spent the formative years of my food-and cooking-obsessed life (my early twenties) determined to become the opposite of that. I yearned to be a “profesh.” Recipes were for home cooks, and I was well on my way to becoming a chef (a label that now makes me cringe with regard to my own title). To rely on a recipe was to acknowledge how much I didn’tknow, and honestly when you’ve still got years and years of expertise to gain and the finish line is barely visible, there’s nothing more un-fun than that. Fast-forward ten years—I now work as a recipe developer, and my primary responsibility is to teach regular people (read: decidedly UN-profesh chefs) to become great home cooks. Of course, recipes are absolutely core to that education. Recipes now course through my veins. I go to sleep thinking about them, dream about them, occasionally have night terrors about them, and almost always wake up still thinking about them. If that sounds really intense, it is. But mostly in a good way.
And, guess what?! Thirty-three-year-old Molly freakin’ loves recipes. Not only do I love to develop and write recipes, I love to cook from recipes—especially those that aren’t my own—because recipes are actually the coolest.
The sheer existence of a recipe suggests that the dish you’re about to cook has been highly and repeatedly considered, tested, and tasted before it was even a twinkle in your pantry, which guarantees you’re that much closer to securing yourself a delicious meal. Recipes are the culmination of exactly that free-balling journey I once prided myself on: a fridge full of seemingly random ingredients, which, after much consideration and many rounds of testing, come together to create something even greater than they once were.
Like most cookbooks, this one is full of recipes. But these are recipes that actually teach. They are packed with useful information that will answer your burning, never-stupid, always-valid questions (this is a safe space) and will help to shed some light on the mystery of the kitchen. I’ve tried to anticipate what those questions will be and provide answers to them within the recipes. I’ve spent a lot of time observing the way my non-food-industry friends and fam navigate their kitchens, and through my observations I have noticed that time management, ingredient prep, and order of operations can really trip up the home cook. That’s a lot of GD stuff to manage at one time! Take my husband, for example, whom I would not call a novice at this point—he’s been far too exposed to the kitchen by now. Even after everything I’ve taught him and all of the recipe development and testing he’s witnessed in our home kitchen, he will still, on occasion, start assembling a salad, dress it completely, and only then realize that his chicken still needs thirty minutes in the oven and his salad has no chance of surviving. (To his credit, he makes a mean salad, despite its occasional sog factor.)
Following a recipe takes an enormous amount of concentration and foresight, and frankly I think most recipes ask too much of the home cook. The recipes in this book were created with YOU, the home cook, in mind. I’ve done the heavy lifting for you and planned out all of the prep work in advance, meaning you can jump right into a recipe and rest assured that the time management aspect of things has already been considered. I’ll be right there with you to tell you when to start chopping your onions and at what point you should get the rice going in order to make the most efficient use of your very valuable time. You’ll also notice that ingredient quantities are listed in the ingredient lists and reiterated in the procedure text. This way, you can use the ingredient lists as a shopping guide, without having to go back and reference them every time an ingredient is called upon. To that end, I’ve organized the ingredients by where they’re most likely to be found in a grocery store or in your home kitchen, to help streamline both your shopping trips and your movement around your kitchen as you gather ingredients and prepare to cook. A great cook is an efficient cook, and these recipes will teach you to be just that.
As you cook your way through this book, you’ll encounter all of the techniques, both big and small, that I consider fundamental to modern home cooking. Each recipe chapter will cover an essential cooking category and teach you the core techniques you’ll need to know. In the chicken chapter, for example, you’ll find recipes for a foolproof roast chicken, a braise-y chicken stew, some shatteringly crisp chicken thighs, perfectly poached chicken breasts, and so on. If you cook your way through that entire chapter, you’ll have learned the quintessential techniques for cooking chicken at home.
Once you’ve got the basic techniques down, another thing every cook must learn is how to build flavor and make food that tastes not just good but GREAT. So, we’re going to cover that, too. The way I see it, Technique × Flavor = Cooking. You’ll find all the tools you need to start thinking about flavor in How to Make Food Taste Great (page 32), because, after all, that’s why you’re here in the first place.
And one more thing . . .
COOKING IS REALLY FUN. I SWEAR. I’m in the business of having lots of fun and eating only the most delicious foods, and I would never have committed to a lifetime of cooking if it didn’t deliver on those two promises. You simply need to set yourself up for success in the kitchen in order to truly enjoy it. What I really hope is that you’ll commit to cooking through all of the recipes in this book, front to back, and by the end of it realize you just took a culinary-school crash course but didn’t notice you were in school because you were having such a ridiculously great time while enrolled. I guarantee you’ll come out the other end a confident, capable, creative, calm, collected, cool-as-f*** cook. So throw on that cross-back apron (or go get one immediately), bust out the kosher salt, and let’s
Cook This Book!
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- Publisher : Clarkson Potter (April 20, 2021)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0593138279
- ISBN-13 : 978-0593138274
- Item Weight : 2.85 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 1.04 x 10.51 inches
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Molly Baz is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author (Cook This Book (2021) More is More (Fall 2023)), recipe developer, and video host whose number one goal in life is to convince the world that cooking is fun, and not that hard to do if you’re properly set up. When she’s not writing books, Molly hosts a subscription digital recipe club, The Club, where she drops new recipes weekly for her fans. When she’s not doing that, you can find her at home sipping on a glass of Drink This Wine (that’s her natural wine company!) in her butter-colored kitchen while filming her hit YouTube series Hit The Kitch, a casual, never too serious but always educational cooking show. Molly lives in Los Angeles with her husband.
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Customers find the writing style easy to use, methodically setup, and well explained. They also appreciate the use of signature colors and the well organized layout. Readers also mention that the book is personable and funny, with no snobbery or fussiness.
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++ the good ++
What I love is how complete the book is. It includes things that aren't often found in cookbooks, like how the brain perceives flavors and how to balance those perceived flavors to the max. Nothing gets too science-y, but there is just enough to deepen an understanding about the importance of understanding how flavors work together and how to build on that knowledge for maximum flavor benefit.
The recipes are fairly easy, very doable, and really, really good. There are a few that seem like - why? - such as the Minimalist Wedge as if a classic Wedge isn't minimalist enough. (Unlike the classic Wedge, this one has a ranch-y dressing instead of blue cheese and is showered with garlic-y toasted panko crumbs instead of bacon - neither of which would fly with any classic Wedge-lover I know.) Even though that particular recipe is a miss, imo, it sort of illustrates what this book is all about - everything is just a little more or different than it initially might seem to be, and mostly successfully so.
Within the recipes are QR codes that access videos on the author's site. The videos are thankfully only as long as they need to be and show cooking techniques that are much better learned by watching than by reading about. This is a really great aspect of this book.
The pictures look as though they have had Instagram's retro-faded-look Nashville filter applied. There are photos of every recipe and my finished dishes have mostly looked liked the photos - possibly because of that filter? - but that's always a very satisfying event, whatever the reason.
I've loved all of the recipes I've chosen to make so far (of course, I didn't choose to make any that didn't naturally appeal to me). Among those are:
— Cold & Crunchy Green Beans with Garlicky Pistachio Vinaigrette - great flavor/texture combo
— Caramelized Fennel with Parmy [sic] Frico - if you love fennel as I do, this is amazing. I find myself craving this dish every time I think about it. I've made this twice already
— Jammy Pepps [sic] with Feta and Basil - the sweet/salty of this is so yummy
— Smoked Trout Dip with Potato C's [sic] & Salmon Roe - no one could get enough of this
— Roasted Salmon with Marinated Olives & Potato Chips - this is my favorite way to prepare salmon (owing to Samin Nosrat, tbh) and the chips add an element that my family thought was both hilarious and tasty
— Strip Steaks au Poivre - haven't made this in forever and making it made me really sorry about missing out for so long
Based on those forays, I just might cook my way through this whole book - something that I have almost, but not quite ever done with any other cookbook.
-- the less good --
-- Serving suggestions for side dishes would have been great. It's so helpful when chefs include them, so I wish she had.
-- The design of the book did not strike me as being ebook-friendly. The many spreads that are nothing more than big graphic type made me opt for the print version over the kindle one.
-- Additionally, there is a feeling that the author is trying too hard to be hip or edgy or something and those instances can be pretty cringe. There are lots of shortened food words (as seen in the above recipe titles) and many mostly gratuitous swear words (although not as many as Thug Kitchen's).
It's a shame since 98% of what the author writes is really quite engaging.
-- The author writes as if the user of the book is already clued into her, her cooking style and her personal preferences, but I think this book is so good that it should have appeal far beyond her immediate fan base.
The bottom line is that minuses are all pretty much stylistic and not related to the results gotten from the recipes, which far outweigh everything else.
I highly recommend this book for the recipes and for learning how to be a better cook...
but with the caveats mentioned above that I know some people will find more annoying than others .
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Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2021
++ the good ++
What I love is how complete the book is. It includes things that aren't often found in cookbooks, like how the brain perceives flavors and how to balance those perceived flavors to the max. Nothing gets too science-y, but there is just enough to deepen an understanding about the importance of understanding how flavors work together and how to build on that knowledge for maximum flavor benefit.
The recipes are fairly easy, very doable, and really, really good. There are a few that seem like - why? - such as the Minimalist Wedge as if a classic Wedge isn't minimalist enough. (Unlike the classic Wedge, this one has a ranch-y dressing instead of blue cheese and is showered with garlic-y toasted panko crumbs instead of bacon - neither of which would fly with any classic Wedge-lover I know.) Even though that particular recipe is a miss, imo, it sort of illustrates what this book is all about - everything is just a little more or different than it initially might seem to be, and mostly successfully so.
Within the recipes are QR codes that access videos on the author's site. The videos are thankfully only as long as they need to be and show cooking techniques that are much better learned by watching than by reading about. This is a really great aspect of this book.
The pictures look as though they have had Instagram's retro-faded-look Nashville filter applied. There are photos of every recipe and my finished dishes have mostly looked liked the photos - possibly because of that filter? - but that's always a very satisfying event, whatever the reason.
I've loved all of the recipes I've chosen to make so far (of course, I didn't choose to make any that didn't naturally appeal to me). Among those are:
— Cold & Crunchy Green Beans with Garlicky Pistachio Vinaigrette - great flavor/texture combo
— Caramelized Fennel with Parmy [sic] Frico - if you love fennel as I do, this is amazing. I find myself craving this dish every time I think about it. I've made this twice already
— Jammy Pepps [sic] with Feta and Basil - the sweet/salty of this is so yummy
— Smoked Trout Dip with Potato C's [sic] & Salmon Roe - no one could get enough of this
— Roasted Salmon with Marinated Olives & Potato Chips - this is my favorite way to prepare salmon (owing to Samin Nosrat, tbh) and the chips add an element that my family thought was both hilarious and tasty
— Strip Steaks au Poivre - haven't made this in forever and making it made me really sorry about missing out for so long
Based on those forays, I just might cook my way through this whole book - something that I have almost, but not quite ever done with any other cookbook.
-- the less good --
-- Serving suggestions for side dishes would have been great. It's so helpful when chefs include them, so I wish she had.
-- The design of the book did not strike me as being ebook-friendly. The many spreads that are nothing more than big graphic type made me opt for the print version over the kindle one.
-- Additionally, there is a feeling that the author is trying too hard to be hip or edgy or something and those instances can be pretty cringe. There are lots of shortened food words (as seen in the above recipe titles) and many mostly gratuitous swear words (although not as many as Thug Kitchen's).
It's a shame since 98% of what the author writes is really quite engaging.
-- The author writes as if the user of the book is already clued into her, her cooking style and her personal preferences, but I think this book is so good that it should have appeal far beyond her immediate fan base.
The bottom line is that minuses are all pretty much stylistic and not related to the results gotten from the recipes, which far outweigh everything else.
I highly recommend this book for the recipes and for learning how to be a better cook...
but with the caveats mentioned above that I know some people will find more annoying than others .
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