How to cook everything : the basics : simple recipes anyone can cook /
Mark Bittman ; illustrations by Alan Witschonke.
- New York : Wiley Publishing, Inc, c2003.
- xiv, 210 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Soups and salads -- Pasta -- Fish -- Poultry -- Meat -- Grains and bean -- Vegetable -- Fruits and pie -- Cookies and cake -- Breads and breakfast.
Presents more than one hundred "core" recipes and detailed instructions designed to help so-called non-cooks build proficiency; covers main and side dishes, desserts, breads, and breakfasts.