Books like Secrets of cooking by Linda Chirinian

Mark Bittman's entry‑level cookbook offers clear, practical recipes for everyday cooking, covering basic techniques and a wide range of dishes—including vegetarian options—aimed at home cooks in the United States.

957 pages : 28 cm

The Flavor Bible is a definitive culinary reference that teaches chefs and home cooks how to season ingredients for maximum flavor, drawing on the expertise of leading chefs and offering thousands of ingredient pairings.

Thirty-nine-year-old Sirine, a Lebanese chef, falls in love with an Arab literature professor while working at a Lebanese restaurant in Los Angeles. Her identity as an Arab American becomes intertwined with her passion for cooking and her newfound romance with Hanif.

"A fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling, ground-breaking Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day--the revolutionary approach to bread-making. With more than half a million copies of their books in print, Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François have proven that people want to bake their own bread, so long as they can do it easily and quickly. Based on fan feedback, Jeff and Zoë have completely revamped their first, most popular, and now-classic book, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. Responding to their thousands of ardent fans, Jeff and Zoë returned to their test kitchens to whip up more delicious recipes. They've also included a gluten-free chapter, forty all-new gorgeous color photos, and one hundred informative black-and-white how-to photos. They've made the 'Tips and Techniques' and 'Ingredients' chapters bigger and better than ever before, and included readers' Frequently Asked Questions. This revised edition also includes more than thirty brand-new recipes for Beer-Cheese Bread, Crock-Pot Bread, Panini, Pretzel Buns, Apple-Stuffed French Toast, and many more. There's nothing like the smell of freshly baked bread to fill a kitchen with warmth, eager appetites, and endless praise. Now, using Jeff and Zoë's innovative technique, you can create bread that rivals those of the finest bakers in the world in just five minutes of active preparation time"--