My best cooking tip for new cooks: watch the original Cooks Country/America’s Test Kitchen on PBS (or your local library), and Alton Brown’s Good Eats. Both cover the how’s and why’s of cooking with clear, understandable presentations. Alton has a flair for silliness - such as the yeast sock puppets - but even now 20 years on, they’re what I think of when yeast is mentioned.
Also, the Americas Test Kitchen cookbook is about $20, and you can usually find it online or used bookstores for less. Just like the show, they explain how and why a recipe works.
Alton Brown’s videos taught me how to cook an entire Thanksgiving meal from scratch.
The thing I love about his teaching style is he tells you how and WHY. The science and fun facts about cooking allowed me to translate my skills to different dishes
My best cooking tip for new cooks: watch the original Cooks Country/America’s Test Kitchen on PBS (or your local library), and Alton Brown’s Good Eats. Both cover the how’s and why’s of cooking with clear, understandable presentations. Alton has a flair for silliness - such as the yeast sock puppets - but even now 20 years on, they’re what I think of when yeast is mentioned.
Also, the Americas Test Kitchen cookbook is about $20, and you can usually find it online or used bookstores for less. Just like the show, they explain how and why a recipe works.
Alton Brown’s videos taught me how to cook an entire Thanksgiving meal from scratch.
The thing I love about his teaching style is he tells you how and WHY. The science and fun facts about cooking allowed me to translate my skills to different dishes