Christine wrote on Sun, 13 May 2007 17:02:37 -0400:

??>> Dave Jones wrote:
??>>> Hi
??>>> I am a single male living on convenience meals at present
??>>> and I would like to start cooking proper meals (like
??>>> mother used to do). Does anyone know of any websites or
??>>> books which explain cooking right from the basics please.

??>> You can't do better than _Joy of Cooking_, still in print
??>> and available everywhere.

CD> One of my favorite books is Learning to Cook with Marion
CD> Cunningham.

CD> She doesn't assume you know anything, and her recipes
CD> work. She will take you step by step through recipes and
CD> what you need to become a good beginning cook.

CD> She learned how to teach real beginning cooks, and
CD> discovered that certain terms that we use in cooking are
CD> completely baffling to new cooks.

There is a title "Cooking Basics for Dummies". I don't get
insulted by Dummies books. They are often a good start tho' the
"humor" may be hard to take!

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not