Brilliant Food Tips and Cooking Tricks: 5,000 Ingenious Kitchen Hints, Secrets, Shortcuts, and Solutions

Now in paperback: the most comprehensive home-cooking reference book ever-with 5,000 fabulous insider kitchen tips and over 900 great-tasting recipes from food experts across the country.

Whether you cook a little or a lot, plain or fancy, healthy or hearty, for your family or just for fun, this is the one book that does it all-faster and easier than you ever dreamed. Find out how to choose the juiciest oranges, perk up limp asparagus, rescue any over-salted dish, and crack an egg with one hand. Get down-to-earth answers to the cooking questions that you face every day. Or, if you're simply tired of the same old meals night after night, discover hundreds of easy recipes that put great-tasting food on your table in a jiffy.

David Joachim is the best-selling author of A Man, A Can, A Plan and has written and edited more than 25 other cookbooks and health books. He has appeared widely on national television and radio, including the Discovery Channel, Television Food Network, QVC, and National Public Radio. He is former food editor at Vegetarian Gourmet magazine and lives in Center Valley, Pennsylvania.