The First-Time Cook

by Sophie Grigson

A one-stop guide that shows readers not only how to cook delicious food, but also how to understand ingredients and techniques so to feel completely confident in the kitchen,  First Time Cook takes readers through the basics of shopping and cooking equipment. Sophie Grigson then covers each essential cooking technique and food in turn, moving step-by-step through the basics with lots of incredibly useful advice on the possible pitfalls and showing variations and alternatives once you have mastered the essentials. Detailed, dynamic step-by-step photographs show how recipes should look at each stage and finished shots are of real food, not overly styled dishes that only a professional could ever achieve.

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Cooking

240 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 2004

About the author

Hester Sophia Frances Grigson is an English cookery writer and celebrity chef known as Sophie Grigson. She has followed the same path and career as her mother, Jane Grigson. Her father was the poet and writer Geoffrey Grigson.

She won the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Journalist Award 2001

Reviews

[Mary Karpel-Jergic · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this recipe book for my daughter but it did not have the motivating effect I was hoping for. However, there are a few interesting recipes worth keeping so I have kept it on my bookshelf.