This isn't just a cookbook; it's a kitchen helper. Here is all the basic information that so many cookbooks leave out: photographs of meat cuts; tips for preparing vegetables, seafood and other ingredients; kitchen maintenance know-how; cookery terms; pasta and rice cooking techniques, and much more. Team all that with a compendium of 400 recipes covering a broad range of basics, classics and special-occasion items, and the result is an everyday cookbook that will be dipped into again and again.