This is
the culinary manual for home cooks, written by 20-year culinary veteran Jennifer Clair. She is the founder of Home Cooking New York, a popular cooking school in New York City, and the host of the cooking podcast, "Kitchen Radio."
Winner of the 2019 IPPY Award for "Best Cookbook." Six Basic Cooking Techniques: Culinary Essentials for the Home Cook focuses on the six essential skills needed to create a strong foundation so that any home cook can maximize their culinary potentials:
- Knife Skills
- Cooking Meats to Perfection
- Making Delicious Pan Sauces
- Roasting Vegetables
- Blanching Green Vegetables
- Cooking Leafy Greens
Author and sought-after culinary instructor Jennifer Clair knows
exactly what questions burn in the minds of home cooks and answers them in the "Students Ask" pages peppered throughout the book. She covers:
- What salt you should use for cooking: kosher, table, or sea salt?
- How to remove the smell of garlic from your fingertips?
- Why you should never mince basil or mint?
- How to achieve restaurant-worthy crispy chicken skin?
- How to check the internal temperature of meat?
- Which vegetables should be roasted together and why?
- Why blanching green vegetables is better than steaming them?
Six Basic Cooking Techniques is a valuable guide for building the confidence all home cooks are looking for in their kitchen.
Jennifer Clair is a culinary instructor and founder Home Cooking New York, a recreational cooking school in New York City. She honed her culinary and editorial chops as a Food Editor at Martha Stewart Living and the Recipes Editor at The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of Gourmet Cooking on a Budget. She lives in the Hudson Valley, New York.