Essentials of Cooking

James Peterson's cookbook, Essentials of Cooking: The 100 Indispensable Skills That Spell the Difference Between Merely Cooking and Knowing How to Cook, as featured in January's Atlantic, looks like a great cookbook because it shows the details of cooking with photographs. The excerpt in the Atlantic gives expert tips on preparing risotto, rice pilaf, paella, roasting vegetables and determining doneness.

If anybody out there has tried recipes from the cookbook, please let us know!

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