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 equipment and staple ingredients; detailed explanations in words and pictures for preparing chicken, meat and seafood; kitchen maintenance know-how; a glossary of food terms and much more. Team all that with more than 300 recipes for quick and easy meals that will make cooking for one or cooking for a crowd a simple, speedy, stress-free affair. This everyday cookbook will be dipped into again and again.