Two suggestions on cooking. There was a TV series down here called Good Eats, hosted by Alton Brown. If you can find videos of it on YouTube or elsewhere, they're VERY informative. He teaches the techniques and science behind cooking in a very informative and amusing way. I highly recommend them, they helped me tremendously when it came to developing cooking skills. Not all of his recipes are 100%, but most of them are good.
Second, if you ever get off to big good used book stores that also traffic in used magazines, there's three that I highly recommend. America's Test Kitchen, Cook's Illustrated, and Milk Street. Books by them are also recommended. They were all founded by the same guy, Christopher Kimball, and he now operates Milk Street after being ignomiously kicked out of America's Test Kitchen for the crime of getting old.
What makes America's Test Kitchen/Milk Street special is that they test recipes to the brink of destruction. Ingredient swaps and adjustments, etc. They'll make recipes 20 times or more, adjusting parameters, before they'll publish it. In the case of Milk Street, they travel the world sourcing recipes then adjusting them so that you can probably get the ingredients locally, if not from online sources. So their recipes are pretty much idiot-proof, and I am more than capable of being an idiot.
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Date: 2025-01-09 04:46 pm (UTC)Second, if you ever get off to big good used book stores that also traffic in used magazines, there's three that I highly recommend. America's Test Kitchen, Cook's Illustrated, and Milk Street. Books by them are also recommended. They were all founded by the same guy, Christopher Kimball, and he now operates Milk Street after being ignomiously kicked out of America's Test Kitchen for the crime of getting old.
What makes America's Test Kitchen/Milk Street special is that they test recipes to the brink of destruction. Ingredient swaps and adjustments, etc. They'll make recipes 20 times or more, adjusting parameters, before they'll publish it. In the case of Milk Street, they travel the world sourcing recipes then adjusting them so that you can probably get the ingredients locally, if not from online sources. So their recipes are pretty much idiot-proof, and I am more than capable of being an idiot.