849 pages! "The New Basics Cookbook" Hardcover Bestseller Classic Indispensible

"The New Basics Cookbook" by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins is the quintessential cookbook for beginning cooks and advanced chefs alike. It's chock full of must-have recipes, from the basics to the sophisticated, and additionally covers so many beginner topics, such as: -Glossary of Greens -How to Boil an Egg -Choosing the Right Rice -Cooking Dried Beans -Shopping for, storing and preparing a variety of produce (new cooks generally don't know how to store different produce items) -Glossary of Cooking Terms -Conversion Chart -Basic Pantry (must-haves for the well stocked pantry) -The Panic-Proof Kitchen -Meat Know-How -So much more Here is an example of SOME of the sauce recipes: -Homemade Mayonnaise -Bearnaise Sauce -Hollandaise Sauce -Remoulade Sauce -Bechamel Sauce -Mornay Sauce -Creme Fraiche -Clarified Butter -Herb Butter This book has a table of contents, a bibliography and an index. It's 849 pages, hardcover and includes the dust jacket. It's in excellent pre-owned condition, except that I highlighted just a couple of areas of the book.