The Ultimate Cook Book: 900 New Recipes, Thousands of Ideas

by Bruce Weinstein, Mark Scarbrough

Overview

Here's the ultimate of ultimates:

900 new recipes from Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, authors of the Ultimate cookbook series. With nearly 400,000 books already in print, their series has followed a simple recipe to success: Give cooks hundreds of solid, basic recipes with thousands of ways to vary them, shake them up, and personalize them so that everyone can be an ultimate cook!

In The Ultimate Cook Book, Weinstein and Scarbrough tackle everything from breakfast to barbecue, stir-fries to steaks, chilies to curries, and paellas to puddings. Pick your favorite, cook it as a solid basic, or vary it in hundreds of ways to make the dish your own. You've got years' worth of dishes and a world of cooking experiences ahead of you. What could be more fun?

This comprehensive, easy-to-use compendium is the ultimate in inspiration, the ultimate in possibilities. Start your Ultimate cookbook collection today—or round it out with The Ultimate Cook Book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062098122
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	06/21/2011
Series:	Ultimate Cookbooks
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	704
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.76(d)

About the Author

Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough are the award-winning authors of nineteen cookbooks. They are contributing editors to Eating Well and columnists for weightwatchers.com, and they contribute regularly to Cooking Light, Fine Cooking, the Washington Post, and other publications. When they're not teaching cooking on Holland America cruise ships, they live in rural Litchfield County, Connecticut, with a fairly sane collie named Dreydl.

Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough are the award-winning authors of nineteen cookbooks. They are contributing editors to Eating Well and columnists for weightwatchers.com, and they contribute regularly to Cooking Light, Fine Cooking, the Washington Post, and other publications. When they're not teaching cooking on Holland America cruise ships, they live in rural Litchfield County, Connecticut, with a fairly sane collie named Dreydl.

Editorial Reviews

This extensive cookbook will teach you everything from soup to nuts with innovative and straightforward recipes.” — Jacques Pepin, cookbook author, cooking teacher, and host of his own PBS-TV series)

From the Publisher

This extensive cookbook will teach you everything from soup to nuts with innovative and straightforward recipes.

Jacques Pepin

This extensive cookbook will teach you everything from soup to nuts with innovative and straightforward recipes.

Jacques Pepin (chef

It seems logical that the wizards behind The Ultimate Cookie Book, The Ultimate Ice Cream Book, The Ultimate Muffin Book, and The Ultimate Candy Book would unleash their superlative skills on cooking in general. Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough's The Ultimate Cook Book delivers more than 900 new recipes; that's more than three years of meals! In addition to all the recipes, this 500-plus-page giant compendium contains numerous tips and thousands of variations on everything from appetizers to desserts, breakfast to a late-night treat.

The ten earlier cookbooks in this popular series all focused on a single topic, from shrimp to ice cream to peanut butter. Now the authors present recipes for all courses of a meal, with dozens of variations and suggestions for many more (e.g., "Ten Things To Do with Gravlax"). The recipes are simple and mostly quick, and they are inspired by a wide variety of cuisines; although many are classics or familiar old favorites, there are imaginative twists as well. Boxes on ingredients, techniques, culinary lore, and helpful tips are scattered throughout. Other big books, such as The Gourmet Cookbook, offer more sophisticated recipes, but Weinstein and Scarbrough's collection will be accessible even to the novice. Busy cooks looking for ideas for a quick meal or for a company dinner will find dozens of possibilities here. Recommended for most collections.

—Judith Sutton

Library Journal