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Coach Bert Cooks With These Books!
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items Books that I use to optimize the skills I already have!
It totally changed my thought process about roasting meats and vegetables and made me a better cook in the process!
How to Roast Everything: A Game-Changing Guide to Building Flavor in ...
This book will teach you techniques to facilitate your desserts to a professional level. Chris Kimball hasn’t missed yet!
The Dessert Bible: Best of American Cooking
Keeps you from having to wonder what to put on the table with your meats!
The Side Dish Bible
Saves your sanity
Martha Stewart's Dinner at Home: 52 Quick Meals
When your kid just wants to stay home but still wants potstickers - show 'em you got the skills that pay the bills!
Let's Make Dumplings!: A Comic Book Cookbook
If you never buy another how-to book for kitchen procedure...get this one!
Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Recipes
Use this for great inspiration and understanding new and improved flavor in your food!
The Flavor Matrix: Art & Science of Pairing
For all my fellow carnivores, this will inspire you to take a trip to the butcher shop and do work...
Knife: Texas Steakhouse Meals at Home
Be a star in your own home bar!
The Infused Cocktail Handbook: Essential Guide
Inspirational story that leads me to keep cooking and to always remember where my love for cooking originated! Thanks Grandmothers!
Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir
THIS. Is the book that inspired me to make great BBQ sauce and to reference good Southern cooking!
Down Home with the Neelys
Bacon makes the world go round and here's the road map!
The Big Book of Bacon: Savory Flirtations
Cookbook from one of my personal Food Netwok Heroes!
Michael Symon's Live to Cook: Recipes & Techniques
This book quite literally changed my life as far as cooking. Exploration into the whole knife - design, recipes, cuts, countries - gave me an unparalleled appreciation for the tool. The tactile tangible benefits of good looking delicious food are exh...
Knives Cooks Love: Buy, Sharpen, Use Guide
Tacos at your house will NEVER be the same!
Lorena Garcia's New Taco Classics
No more run of the meal grilling for you your friends are going to be wild with your new techniques and new explorations of different food no more just burgers and hotdogs!
Grill Master (Williams-Sonoma): Ultimate Arsenal
Don't just stop at the onion gravy, which is the best I have ever had! Delilah takes us home to VA and takes us back to our grandma's kitchen! I would recommend this book to anyone that wants to get in touch with their Southen cooking roots.
Delilah's Everyday Soul: Southern Cooking
if you have a lot of cast-iron, like I do, and sometimes run out of ideas of what to do with it...please believe you can find all types of inspiration in this book. They’ve even got desserts!
Will It Skillet?: 53 Irresistible Recipes
I really was able to find a recipe combination for every day of the year!
Milk Street 365 Cookbook
All porkbellyphiles (yes, I know it’s not scientific but humor me) this is for you! The "Loaded Up and Nowhere To Go Bacon Bread Pudding" is a smash!
The Big Book of Bacon: Savory Flirtations
Free your mind, and flavor will follow! I have learned more about flavor elements of food here than any other book!
The Flavor Bible: Essential Culinary Guide
This is like a bible for newbies to bartending. Those of us that don’t drink are stars to our drinking friends because of this book!
Mr. Boston
Don’t have time to think about dinner? Get this book and put it on autopilot! Half a year with no worries? Where do I sign? This book!
The Make-Ahead Cook: 8 Smart Dinner Tips
If your town doesn’t have a dedicated butcher close by - get this book and a knife. You’ll be good with going to the grocery store and wowing your butcher when you ask for specific cuts. Or whip out your knife and cut it up yourself!
The Everyday Meat Guide: Butcher's Advice
When you don't have your grandmother...you have this. Everything she would have advised you and then some exotic stuff. Bread and cake and tortes need no longer be mysteries. Happy baking!
Baking At Home - Culinary Institute Of America
When you take your trip to Alaska, you'll already have a working knowledge of what to prepare! And all of these suggestions in this book have been very tasty and easy to make.
Alaska from Scratch
I got this from my daughter and it has been an absolute life saver! I never have to wonder about what to prepare when she comes to visit!
Food Network Magazine 1000 Easy Recipes
if you ever wanted to know how the cooks on TV make things beautiful… Look no further! Everything here is demystified and made clear so that you too can have Chef like presentation on your table!
Food Presentation Secrets: Styling Techniques
Got to support a fellow Duke alum here...the tips and ratios are definitely a help. Changed my biscuits and pie dough game forever. Also made me recognize the importance of a scale in exact baking science. Worth the purchase!
The Simple Codes Behind Everyday Cooking
Christopher Kimball’s mission to improve cooking is definitely met here! You’ll learn something before you’re done!
The Cook's Bible: Best of American Cooking
When it says 100 pancakes and waffles, it means it!
1 Batter = 100 Pancakes and Waffles (Love Food)