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CANAL HOUSE: COOK SOMETHING

Christopher Hirsheimer Melissa Hamilton

Recipes to Rely On

The Joy of Cooking for the Instagram generation, with more than 200 encouraging recipes that teach you how to cook--from boiling an egg and making blue cheese dressing to roasting a chicken and baking a perfect chocolate souffle.
Cook. Cook something. Cook something for yourself. Cook something for others. It will satisfy you more than you know. We promise.

From the James Beard award-winning duo behind Canal House, "the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue of the food world" (Bon Appetit), COOK SOMETHING teaches the fundamental building blocks of all good cooking, with 200 simple recipes to rely on for the rest of your life.

Each chapter focuses on a single everyday ingredient or a technique, taking it from the simplest (a boiled egg) to the most ambitious (a towering soufflé). Step-by-step photographs clarify each cooking lesson, all of which are imbued with Canal House's kitchen common sense and warm personal style.

A sophisticated yet accessible cookbook built to stand the test of time, this is an essential book of culinary instruction for beginners and a wondrous set of new ideas for confident cooks.

Melissa Hamilton is a renowned food stylist and cofounder of Canal House. She previously worked at Saveur, which she joined in 1998, as the test kitchen director, and was its food editor for many years. Hamilton also worked in the kitchens of Martha Stewart Living and Cook's Illustrated, and she was the cofounder and first executive chef of Hamilton's Grill Room in Lambertville, New Jersey. She has developed and tested recipes and styled food for both magazines and cookbooks, including those by acclaimed chefs John Besh, Michael Psilakis, Roberto Santibanez, and David Tanis. She works with Christopher Hirsheimer on Canal House Cooking, for which the two do all of the writing, recipes, photography, design, and production.

Christopher Hirsheimer is an award-winning photographer and cofounder of Canal House. Her experience includes establishing a publishing venture, running a culinary and design studio, and publishing an annual series of three seasonal cookbooks titled Canal House Cooking. Prior to starting Canal House in 2007, in Lambertville, New Jersey, Hirsheimer was the executive editor of Saveur, which she cofounded in 1994, and the food and design editor of Metropolitan Home. She cowrote the award-winning Saveur Cooks ;series and The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market Cookbook. Her photographs have appeared in more than 50 cookbooks for such notables as Lidia Bastianich, Mario Batali, Julia Child, Jacques Pépin, and Alice Waters, and in numerous magazines, including Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, InStyle, and Town&Country. She works with Melissa Hamilton on Canal House Cooking, for which the two do all of the writing, recipes, photography, design, and production.
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Published 2019-09-10 by Voracious / Little Brown

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Wonderful... Cook Something is full of recipes to fall-back on, ones you want to make again and again.

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR --New York Times, Epicurious, Food52, Food and Wine, Chowhound, The Kitchn, Forbes

Their best book... you will want to give [it] to new marrieds, recent graduates, clueless millennials, divorced men, and you, veteran cook that you are, ought to get a copy for yourself.... In brief, this is the new Joy of Cooking, the one essential book for every home cook.

[A] stunningly photographed step-by-step guide that's filled to the brim with twists on the classics.

Hamilton and Hirsheimer offer an exhaustive beginner's guide to cooking basics in this tasty and beautiful collection... with the expert guidance provided here, first-time cooks will be able to prepare delicious meals with confidence.

The masters of understated elegance... [Cook Something] distills their approach down to 300 essential recipes.

As home cooks, they know you don't want a super complicated set of instructions most nights--you just want a good dinner without too much fuss. This new cookbook will get anyone there, from beginning cooks to jaded vets in need of a little inspiration. It includes 300 basic-but-brilliant recipes that cover every course, including snacks and sweets, so you can find just what you're looking for.

Based on chapters that teach readers how to master a key ingredient or powerful technique, ranging from braises and sauces to salad dressings and vegetables. You'll find Canal House's classic vinaigrette; there's also oven-braised chicken with gnocchi, all paired with step-by-step photos.

An ideal manual for modern cooks... How to eat, shop, drink, and live in ways that wring the most satisfaction from the least work. Gobble it up.

The "patron saint of seasonal home cooking... the book comprises 300 unfussy-yet-extra-special recipes, stories, and tutorials from Hirsheimer & Hamilton's collective century of cooking experience; in it, you'll find how-tos on everything from boiling an egg properly to making fresh pasta and curing salmon--and beyond. The recipes themselves range from classic to unexpected, and along the way teach us a heck of a lot about the many different ways to cook and eat.

With more than 300 dishes in this book, every cook is bound to find a new favorite... a new modern-day kitchen classic.