Best book for a nub who's never cooked in his life?

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>>8894372

As far as beginner cookbooks go this one is fantastic (despite the author being a first-class gigafag). I've bought several copies of this as gifts for people wanting to get into cooking.

>>8894379
i'll check it out, thx

>>8894372
The internet.

>>8894379
Jamie's a faggot, but his home cooking videos are good if you're just getting started.

>>8894372
Youtube.

Cook books are lame as fuck.

Pick a meal. Find a couple of vids of people making it and choose one that you think caters more to your taste, then make it. Too easy.

>>8894379
I would never read a book by a fatass who preaches "healthy eating."

Why isn't there a sticky for recommended readings to learn how to cook? I'm sure that would get more people on this board at least interested in cooking.

>>8896019
This.
The internet and youtube blow cookbooks out of the water.

Start with eggs. They are cheap and quick and will help you develop skills that transfer to most other types of cooking.

The Joy Of Cooking.
It has all the basics anybody, chef to causal cook, needs.

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Learn from Pepin'. He wrote a couple of books in the 70's that every modern chef has read/studied. It's not a cookbook but a technique book. He recently moved the techniques to video with a cookbook called Essential Pepin'. It all French technique but its very basic and shows you everything you need to do in order to follow cookbooks. His recipes are good too.

>>8894372
Get this, read it, love it.

https://www.amazon.com/Joy-of-Cooking/dp/0743246268/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493958973&sr=1-1&keywords=the+joy+of+cooking

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>>8896202
The joy of cooking is easily surpassed by any of the cooks illustrated stuff. You're better off buying a year subscription to the cooks illustrated website.

>>8894372
mark bittman - how to cook everything

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>>8896019
>Youtube. Cook books are lame as fuck.
Really just this. If you do want to learn the science behind cooking and why certain recipes will tell you to do certain things for the heck of it, this book compiled by Cook's Illustrated magazine (available online as an ebook) is good one. Below is the video cliff notes version by the authors and a playlist of various vignettes featured therein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSRfyDR5kOw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjPCPs-RI7Q&list=PLnbzopdwFrnb7QgoSDeIJH3R3Y9CagMCl


Also The Food Lab by Kenji López-Alt (again floating around the internet as a PDF), but it's basically just a compilation of all of the various articles/recipes available on seriouseats.com and here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/SeriousEats

Last author who knows his stuff and would be good bedtime reading if you really cared is anything written by Harold McGee, and specifically On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen.

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btw I wasn't going to reply to everyone until it became clear everyone was an idiot. Anyone who doesn't know how to cook is the stupidest form of creature. It's a basic survival instinct. Geese don't need to be taught how to fly south, they just know. If you can't figure it out on your own, you're hopeless.

>>8896901
Thank you, superior anime-based lifeform

>>8896901
And I assume you can cook a 10/10 french omlette straight out of the womb, with no prior knowledge of cooking?

>>8898106
You're welcome.

>>8898130
Why would you assume that you dense motherfucker?