Cooking Essentials
By Mary Berry
1997
First Published
4.38
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168
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This book is for you if you've been cooking for a long time, for it will bring you new cooking knowledge and ideas. And this book is for you if you're just starting out cooking, or are ready to take that next step into really knowing this most delightful of endeavors. This book starts with a visual guide to the pantry, describing and explaining a key choice of ingredients from peppercorns, oils and vinegars, to pasta and beans, vanilla beans and honey. A stock of good basic ingredients will help you cook well, and for those on a budget, this section will ensure that bad buys are kept to a minimum and that correct storage will prevent waste.
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Author
Mary Berry
Author · 43 books
There are multiple authors in the Goodreads database with this name. Mary Berry is an English food writer and television presenter. After being encouraged in domestic science classes at school, she went to college to study catering. She then moved to France at the age of 21 to study at Le Cordon Bleu school, before working in a number of cooking-related jobs. She has published more than seventy cookery books (her first being The Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook in 1970) and hosted several television series for the BBC and Thames Television. Berry is an occasional contributor to Woman's Hour and Saturday Kitchen. She has been a judge on the BBC One (originally BBC Two) television programme The Great British Bake Off since its launch in 2010.
