The chef is a chef: how to learn to cook without recipes. 2nd ed. Punch E.

It seems to many novice cooks that there is nothing easier than cooking a recipe - it’s enough to find a good one and follow it exactly. But not one, even the best, the recipe will tell you how to do such basic things as to cook such a rice or choose meat that is suitable for this dish, and will not explain why put a crystal cork in a pan to get the most delicious broth. Books of recipes will not teach the basics of culinary science and technology, but it is precisely this knowledge that Eve Punch generously shares that the thoughtful reader will not only successfully cope with recipes of any complexity, but also create his own - confidently, easily and naturally.