On May 13, 5:02 pm, Christine Dabney > wrote:
> On Sun, 13 May 2007 15:55:58 -0400, Julia Altshuler
>
> > wrote:
> >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.
>
> One of my favorite books is Learning to Cook with Marion Cunningham.
>
> She doesn't assume you know anything, and her recipes work. She will
> take you step by step through recipes and what you need to become a
> good beginning cook.
>
> She learned how to teach real beginning cooks, and discovered that
> certain terms that we use in cooking are completely baffling to new
> cooks.
>
> Christine

I have never seen that one. I'll add it to the reference list. It
sounds very useful since most cooking books seem to assume that one
knows what a spatula is, etc. I once had someone work for me who at
the age of 35 had just cracked his first egg!

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada