The Basics: A really useful cookbook

A modern and useable resource for a market filled with heavily designed and indulgent cookbooks, The Basics is the definitive resource for new and old cooks alike. The recipes require basic ingredients, equipment and skills, avoiding the usual trappings of glossy cookbooks with their complicated instructions, exotic ingredients and photographs of unachievable dishes only a chef could prepare. With over 500 pages of recipes for fast, everyday meals, rescue remedies for when things go wrong and substitute ingredients for when the cupboard is bare, this is a cookbook for everyone.