How To Cook Everything―completely Revised Twentieth Anniversary Edition: Simple Recipes for Great Food (How to Cook Everything Series, 1)

The ultimate kitchen companion, completely updated and better than ever, now for the first time featuring color photos

For twenty years, Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything has been the definitive guide to simple home cooking. This new edition has been completely revised for today’s cooks while retaining Bittman’s trademark minimalist style―easy-to-follow recipes and variations, and tons of ideas and inspiration.

Inside this essential cookbook, you’ll find hundreds of brand-new features, recipes, and variations, like Slow-Simmered Beef Chili, My New Favorite Fried Chicken, and Eggs Poached in Tomato Sauce; plus old favorites from the previous editions, in many cases reimagined with new methods or flavors. Recipes and features are designed to give you unparalleled freedom and flexibility: for example, infinitely variable fundamental cooking techniques (Grilling Vegetables, Roasting Seafood); innovative uses for homemade condiments; easy-to-make one-pot meals; and visual guides to improvising soups, stir-fries, and more. Bittman has also updated all the information on ingredients, including whole grains and produce, alternative baking staples, and sustainable seafood. And, new for this edition, recipes are showcased throughout with color photos.

By increasing the focus on usability, modernizing the recipes to become new favorites, and adding gorgeous photography, Mark Bittman has updated this classic cookbook to be more indispensable than ever.

This twentieth-anniversary edition, the definitive guide to simple home cooking, has been updated for a new generation:

Easy-to-Follow Recipes: Hundreds of new and reimagined favorites, from Slow-Simmered Beef Chili to My New Favorite Fried Chicken, now showcased with color photos for the first time. Creative Flexibility: Visual guides to improvising soups and stir-fries, plus infinitely variable techniques that give you the freedom to cook with what you have on hand. Modern Ingredient Guides: Fully updated information on today’s ingredients, including whole grains, alternative baking staples, and how to choose sustainable seafood. The Joy of Cooking: Mark Bittman’s trademark minimalist style makes every dish accessible, turning your kitchen into a place of creativity and confidence.