At Home in the Kitchen : The Art of Preparing the Foods You Love to Eat

This fresh approach to cooking encourages readers to embrace cooking as a form of personal and group entertainment. Included are instructions for kitchen organization, 230 easy recipes, tips on special meals, ethnic foods, and degree of difficulty in preparation. Illustrations.

At Home in the Kitchen is a fresh, new approach to cooking. Supported by an interactive Web site, the book is the first of what is sure to be a popular new way of helping busy working women, particularly executives -- who have very little time available for planning and executing complicated, exotic dishes -- to prepare excellent meals every day. Having designed the book to take the mystique out of cooking, Jorj Morgan encourages readers to embrace cooking at home as a form of personal and group entertainment. Among the many helpful elements that make At Home in the Kitchen a uniquely helpful cookbook are:
-- Instructions on kitchen organization
-- More than 230 easy, fun, and delicious recipes
-- An easy-to-read, step-by-step format, with no more than ten steps per recipe
-- Recipes sorted by cooking techniques, from easiest to more elaborate
-- Organized into foods the reader could eat in a restaurant
-- Many tips, including definitions of terms, cooking methods, tips on substituting ingredients, and dish presentation
-- Three indexes -- food groups, ingredients, and cooking techniques
-- Web site support devoted to encouraging cooks to prepare food creatively by using the recipes in the book as a guideline, inviting Web site users to share their cooking experiences, finding answers to questions, and updating new recipes and menu plans