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Cooking Basics — Five techniques that feed you for life
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Cooking Basics
Five techniques that feed you for life
A handful of techniques that cover most of what home cooking needs.
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Boil, sauté, roast, steam, and season. Five techniques cover about 90% of home cooking. A recipe is these in different combinations and proportions. The skill looks complex from outside but breaks down into a small number of moves repeated with different ingredients.
- Start with one dish you eat often. Learn to cook it without a recipe. Then learn a second. Each one adds confidence.
- Cooking is cheaper than eating out, healthier than packaged food, and a skill that works in every country.
SourceMcGee, On Food and Cooking (2004)
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