Eve Adamson

Marie Rama

Bryan Miller

Wolfgang Puck

It doesn’t take culinary mastery and great recipes to be a great cook. But then again, it does take more than boiling eggs to lure you out of ordering take-out every night. Whether you want to pick up a new hobby, win your friends and family over [move “over” after “win”?] with your meals, or eat healthier, heartier meals, you’ll need to know a few things about cooking. Basic Cooking For Dummies, Third Edition digs you out of microwave dinners and tipping delivery persons and propels you with all the ingredients you need toward becoming a superior home cook. This hands-on guide shows you the fun and easy way to prepare meals all your guests will love, from die-hard vegetarians to the most passionate meat eaters. You’ll be able to handle boiling, poaching, steaming, braising, grilling, and other essential techniques, making it easy to master: Stirring up sensational soups Perfecting the art of the egg Dressing up salads to impress Creating wonderful pasta dishes One-stop one-pot meals Satisfying your sweet tooth with desserts Cooking for your boss Making the most of leftovers Meals for the most special occasions Packed with over 150 tempting, hassle-free recipes that will satisfy every palette, as well as advice on supplying, organizing, and budgeting your kitchen, you’ll have all the know-how to become a culinary expert and possess the elusive key to anyone’s stomach!

Cooking Basics for Dummies

The inspired, inspiring recipes of the chef-proprietor of Los Angeles' world-renowned restaurants Spago and Chinois. Puck is probably the most innovative chef in America, and one of the most famous. Illustrated.

Recipes from Spago, Chinois, and Points East and West

The Wolfgang Puck Cookbook

Wolfgang Puck is one of the world’s leading cooks and restauranteurs. The Wolfgang Puck Cookbook takes its inspiration from his famous Los Angeles restaurants Spago and Chinois on Main. Puck delights in blending the East with the West, creating innovative dishes inspired by the cuisines of France, Italy, and the Orient. Issued for the first time in paperback, the Wolfgang Puck Cookbook details over two hundred of the triumphant and wholly original creations that have earned Puck the acclaim of his fellow chefs: Praise for Wolfgang Puck Cookbook “It is a modern classic.”—Craig Claiborne “The recipes in this book reveal the confident and exuberant palate of Wolfgang Puck. It is a rare person who is classically trained, yet free-spirited enough to successfully integrate a whole new world of delicious and inspired tastes.”—Alice Waters “If I could have only one cookbook, this is the one I would want.”—Maida Heatter

Wolfgang Puck Cookbook

Chad Waterbury

Acclaimed chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck shares his classic recipes made healthy along with easy exercise moves to help readers lose weight and feel energetic. In Wolfgang Puck Makes It Healthy, Wolfgang Puck shares the food and fitness plan that helped him transform from being overweight and out of shape to fit and energetic. Now, he offers more than 100 health-conscious recipes, some modified classics from his earlier classics; others brand new. Readers will find flavorful food for every meal, including snacks and desserts, inspired by Mexican, Asian, Italian, Indian, and French cuisine. Puck will never tell readers that they can't enjoy a glass of wine or to cut out their favorite foods. Instead, he partnered with trainer Chad Waterbury and journalist Lou Schuler to outline an exercise solution. They've uncovered a plan for the fitness-phobic out there who want to be able to indulge a little: an adaptable 40 minute workout program focused on core stability, cardio fitness, and mobility that can be adapted to suit anyone's daily life.

Light, Delicious Recipes and Easy Exercises for a Better Life

Wolfgang Puck Makes It Healthy

The chef of Los Angeles's Ma Maison restaurant offers more than 200 recipes, based on la nouvelle cuisine, adapted to American ingredients and methods, and includes tips on presentation and wine and seasonal menus

Recipes Form the James Beard Award-Winning Chef-Owner of Spago

Wolfgang Puck's Modern French Cooking for the American Kitchen

Martha Rose Shulman

In addition to more than 100 recipes, this book by the famous chef features numerous cooking tips as well as advice on how to select the freshest ingredients, how to adapt recipes to the season, using the right cookware, and menu and wine selections.

Delicious Recipes for Your Home Kitchen

Wolfgang Puck Makes it Easy

Steven Rothfeld

Shares secrets for preparing pasta and pizza, covering the basics, from sauce preparation to soups, and offering a collection of recipes that emphasize fresh foods.

Wolfgang Puck's Pizza, Pasta, and More!

Provides more than two hundred recipes that combine French, Italian, and Oriental techniques and flavors, and offers such dishes as Stir-Fried Scallop Salad and Pizza with Smoked Salmon. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Wolfgang Puck Makes It Easy is a groundbreaking cookbook in which Wolfgang Puck shares his creativity and genius so that anyone can prepare these wonderful recipes. Every element of the book aims to make it incredibly easy to create great food of the highest quality and creativity, as only Wolfgang Puck can do. In addition to more than 100 recipes, the book features numerous cooking tips as well as advice on how to select the freshest ingredients, how to adapt recipes to the season, using the right cookware, and menu and wine selections. He is creator of some of the world's greatest restaurants such as Spago and Postrio. He is known for the fast-growing Wolfgang Puck Express, a line of cooking accessories, television appearances on the Food Network, and a line of soups and pizzas. He is author of five previous cookbooks. Wolfgang Puck is one of the most visible names and faces in the food business.

Wolfgang Puck Makes It Easy

Taking its title from Pucks signature catch phrase, this new offering from Pucks kitchen is composed of 150 favorite recipes featured on "Wolfgang Puck," his popular Food Network show. 110 photos, 80 in full color.

Wolfgang Puck

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