can anyone recommend a beginners cooking book for me?

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yomomma1

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i really need and want to learn how to cook. Basic foods anyone should know how to cook. what is a good cooking book for someone who has no cooking background, experience whats so ever and is just starting out? for beginners i should say. A very easy book to follow.
 
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yyyyzztwiset

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Go to the store. Open any cookbook. If it is good ,it has all recipes, marked with difficulty, price and time - grades. The least difficult are for beginners. And those with pictures are for '3 years' old.
But nobody has to know - just don't tell.
Peace.
 
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RonBerue

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(wise) is on the right track, but you might do a little better going to your local library.

You can borrow a few books at a time, take them home, go through them at your leisure, decide which one(s) you think would be easy to understand and work with, then you buy that book or those books.

Thanks for asking your Q! I think I did my best to answer it.

VTY,
Ron Berue
Yes, that is my real last name!
 
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Eve

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My recommendation is to watch cooking shows on tv, because a recipe in writing doesn't show you the basics of measuring, how to tell when something is cooked,and what not to do.

A very good show is on PBS(NY) called "Cooks Country"- thats on here on Saturday afternoon. The same people do another show on the other PBS channel...anyway theres like 2 recipes that they do. They show you the wrong way and the right way of doing it, they show you what meat to pick, what method of cooking works best, how to measure and why its important, its like a cooking class. They do taste testing and test equipment as well.
I grew up watching Julia Childs, it didn't matter what she made it was all the info and the variety of food I had never heard of.
Another good groups of shows are on ''Foodnetwork''. My fav. are Good Eats and Barefoot Contessa and you can get all the recipes from their website so you don't need to buy a book
 
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