From the classics ('The Joy of Cooking') to the new ('Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat')
First, let’s get one thing straight: There is no one best cookbook for beginners, just like there is no one best cookbook for baking a cake or for large-format entertaining. What makes a cookbook ideal for beginners is almost as subjective as the beginner in question; while some newbie cooks want to know everything about why cooking works the way it does, others just want a five-ingredient recipe that will, in 30 minutes or less, result in a meal.
So with that in mind, here is a list of 10 great cookbooks for beginning cooks, presented with the recognition that regardless of their goals, every cook — new or experienced — wants a cookbook that offers the opportunity for a happy ending. Some are recent, some are not; what all of them have in common is that they offer, through an alchemy of recipes, voice, and explanation of methodology, paths into the kitchen that are as welcoming as they are diverse.
There’s a reason this glorious doorstop of a book is still going strong 88 years after Irma Rombauer self-published its first incarnation. Revised this year by Rombauer’s great-grandson John Becker and his wife Megan Scott, the book remains a master class for anyone who wants to learn the basics — all of the basics.
Ina Garten’s appeal has always lived at the intersection of classy and comforting, a combination that makes many of her books ideal for any cook looking for something simple, but with a little. This book is a sound choice for the beginner confronted with the specter of entertaining: large-format recipes like rib roast, saffron risotto, and five-cheese penne offer satisfying, unfussy solutions to the problem of how to feed people, and feed them well.
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