I recommend Molly Baz's first cookbook, it's catered for beginners and has QR codes for quick tutorials (i.e. how to properly cut something). And I also recommend The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters, a culinary queen.
For any and all secondhand books, I highly rec Better World Books
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for a blossoming home cook, i'd recommend getting a cookbook that focuses on teaching technique/building blocks rather than a specific cuisine. it's a good starting place to get comfortable with things like cooking meat, making pie crust, etc., and then cookbooks not geared towards beginners will be a lot less intimidating
some recs would be the food lab by kenji lopez-alt, start here by sohla el-waylly, or anything jacques pepin
Mar 26, 2024
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SFAH - teaches you the basics of food, although it's not very recipe heavy. the graphics are so cute. so many tiny paintings
tender heart has really good recipes! the chapters are organized by veggies so you can buy like 5 pounds of cabbage and you can read through the different ways to cook them!
i don't really like her recipes bc i have a delicate palette (lol) but molly baz's cookbooks have the BEST graphic design. i think her husband is her graphic curator.... so spunky and cute
Apr 6, 2024
๐ดThe Woks of Life (also a website with plenty of online recipes) by Bill, Judy, Sarah, & Kaitlin Leung:
This is a book by a Chinese-American family that teaches you about traditional Chinese recipes and also American-Chinese takeout classics.
They include cute family anecdotes which is really cute.
๐ดThe Food of Sichuan by Fuchsia Dunlop:
I LOVE Sichuan food and these recipes have all turned out well for me. Fuchsia is a famous chef and although she is from the UK she studied culinary arts in China.
What I love about both books is that theyโre definitely written for people who may not be from China, but are more likely to live in the US or UK. They explain what certain unfamiliar ingredients are and give you advice on how to find them or what to substitute for them if you canโt find them.
Feb 15, 2024
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will always be superior to getting your hair cut at the salon. Yeah you have to learn how to do it yourself and you might even mess up, but the fate of your hair is better in your hands than a stranger's. Because let's be honest, there's a specific type of anger when you shell out $200 for a shitty haircut that you expected would change your life
Mar 30, 2024
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Really, the public library is just a big living room. Enjoy it as such.
Jan 30, 2024
