Good cookbooks for someone with no knowledge of cooking?

>>9336792
Tasty videos are pretty good for cooking amateurs

if you REALLY want to learn:

- "The Professional Chef", the manual of the Culinary Institute of America
- "The new Larousse Gastronomique" (expensive new but dirt cheap when bought used on amazon)
- "Modernist Cuisine"

all those are more like super extensive and exhaustive encyclopedias on cooking and all things food. A life purchase. The biggest problem all cookbooks have in common is they don't teach you technique or barely anything. For that videos are best.

>>9336820
Know a good one for British food?

>>9336849
Hmmm, I have got the official UK Army cookbook . excellent for learning, with tons of explanations. I have uploaded it for you:

https://rg.to/file/4c3df130ca0f43c4617fb0f06dfefcd6/JSP404_Intro_Contents_Index2008

0528.pdf.html

https://rg.to/file/fa09e04303efd0347bd35cfce8966ed4/JSP404_Part120080528.pdf.html

https://rg.to/file/7877b469d3fb20bc01d1f3cf5d1b4474/JSP404_Part220080528.pdf.html

https://rg.to/file/ec68cd9cc8a1b6c4e6509e2593a0b499/JSP404_Part320080528.pdf.html

https://rg.to/file/502d95d03f6857c9a0d26d2b5273da14/JSP404_Part420080528.pdf.html

https://rg.to/file/b55d6b9d09e025429f6b5e53276a1a47/JSP404_Part520080528.pdf.html

>>9336869
Thanks heaps, mate.

>>9336820
Not OP but I was going to make a thread asking the same thing so thanks for the preemptive advice.

>>9336792
Thanks for being a faggot so I don't have too.

>>9336792
I like the show, magazunes and books by America's Test Kitchen, the website Serious Eats, and the show Good Eats. All of them teach you why they cook things a certain way, which builds skill that you can apply to other recipes.

>>9336921
>reddit spacing
you already are a faggot

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>>9336958
> you already are a faggot
I know...

> reddit spacing
Also what does reddit have to do with "spacing"? Is this some newfangled meme you kids are into there days?

>>9336996
Welcome to neo-4chan where 97% of posters are mobileposters, to whom being able to comfortably type out more than two or three words is a sign of being an old geezer who uses a physical keyboard.

This became normal post-gamergate. Now everything must be compressed into tweet-like text fragments or it's not "real 4chan anonymous culture". If you use paragraphs it's considered to be for the normie boomer squares REEEE GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT REDDIT I BET YOU HAVE A JOB AND STUFF

>>9336801
I reckon its pretty good
Lots of pasta and stirfry recipes that are really hard to messup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7mtEoMFJ60

>>9336792
Not sure what you have across the atlantic, but I have a large book with wide variety reciepies and multiple authors. you're looking for a basic cook book with tutorials and travia. ask around in bookshops.

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This is what you need. Has most of the basics and a bunch of traditional recipes and skills that you can build on.

>>9337010
Sometimes I'll be laying on the couch on mobile, and see a thread I want to reply to. It's too long to type out comfortably on mobile so I will get up, walk to my computer, sometimes have to turn it on, wait, find the thread and type it out. Nothing like using a real keyboard.