Ok, Dan Goodman's comments in a different thread got me to thinking what is
good source for a primer or starter cookbook that aren't kids or college
students when it hit me.

Look to see if there existed a "Cooking for Dummies" cookbook and Lo and
Behold! Such a thing exists!

Now, I'm a computer programmer by profession and someone that likes to learn
something by playing around with it. My wife, OTOH, has to have some kind
of structured training to learn, say, a new computer program. One time, I
upgraded the software on her PC and deleted WordPerfect from her PC and
replaced it with MS Office. Let's just say that I ate a lot of fast food
for a few weeks because of it and let it go at that, shall we? Anyways,
she's screaming about how she doesn't know how to use MS Word, so thinking
fast I told her to buy a book on it. She went and purchased MS Word for
Dummies. She, in about a week spending a couple of hours each night,
learned how to do stuff I, who had been using it for a couple of years,
didn't even know it could do.

So I'm thinking this may not be a bad way to approach cooking. Get one of
those "for Dummies" book. Has anyone tried them? Would you recommend them?
I'm looking for a source that I can refer to that will explain, hopefully
with pictures, the how-to's of techniques. Like, how to hold a knife while
dicing. How to hold the other hand while dicing. I've tried the
curled-under technique and I have to admit that not only does it look
awkward when you see someone doing it, it's even more awkward (IMO) while
doing it oneself.

If "Cooking for Dummies" isn't as good as another source, please let me
know.

TIA,
Bret



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Bret wrote:

> If "Cooking for Dummies" isn't as good as another source, please let me
> know.

Googling in this newsgroup unearths the expressed opinion that there are two
possibly-superior books in a different series:

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Techniques and Science
Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Basics

Bob

"Bob" > wrote in message
...
> Bret wrote:
>
>> If "Cooking for Dummies" isn't as good as another source, please let me
>> know.
>
> Googling in this newsgroup unearths the expressed opinion that there are
> two
> possibly-superior books in a different series:
>
> The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Techniques and Science
> Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Basics
>
> Bob

Thanks Bob! I'll have to check them both out next time I make to the big
city.

Bret



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