

My most delicious meals are ones where I can see the food or feel it and it’s delicious to me. If you do it right - if you cook her book - you’ll have essentially gone to culinary school and, eventually, won’t have to follow her recipes to a T.īecause, as she tells InsideHook, “I know that there is not just one definition of delicious, so I hope people feel empowered to tweak things to satisfy their own x-factor.

She offers not only the know-how but also, maybe more importantly, the know-why. While Baz has garnered a reputation as an excellent recipe developer, her book is not just a collection of prescriptive recipes. And her new book, Cook This Book, works perfectly as a guide as you develop the techniques you’ll need to go from a good home cook to a great one.

The best way to become a better home cook is simply to go for it. In fact, she would like you to know that even now, after years of living and breathing food and recipes, she still occasionally over-seasons her food. No matter how little you know about seasoning, how few dishes you’ve successfully created or even if don’t know how to sauté an onion, it just takes practice and an acceptance that you will make mistakes. Throughout, you’ll encounter dozens of QR codes, accessed through the camera app on your smartphone, that link to short technique-driven videos hosted by Molly to help illuminate some of the trickier skills.Molly Baz wants you to know that cooking a delicious meal at home is well within your wheelhouse. More than a collection of recipes, Cook This Book teaches you the invaluable superpower of improvisation though visually compelling lessons on such topics as the importance of salt and how to balance flavor, giving you all the tools necessary to make food taste great every time. Molly breaks the essentials of cooking down to clear and uncomplicated recipes that deliver big flavor with little effort and a side of education, including dishes like Pastrami Roast Chicken with Schmaltzy Onions and Dill, Chorizo and Chickpea Carbonara, and of course, her signature Cae Sal. Cook This Book is a new kind of foundational cookbook from Molly Baz, who’s here to teach you absolutely everything she knows and equip you with the tools to become a better, more efficient cook. If you seek out, celebrate, and obsess over good food but lack the skills and confidence necessary to make it at home, you’ve just won a ticket to a life filled with supreme deliciousness. “Surprising no one, Molly has written a book as smart, stylish, and entertaining as she is.”-Carla Lalli Music, author of Where Cooking Begins A thoroughly modern guide to becoming a better, faster, more creative cook, featuring fun, flavorful recipes anyone can make.
