Eggs: Martha Stewart's Cooking School, Lesson 2: Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook: A Cookbook

by Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart’s Cooking School Now a PBS SeriesLesson 2 is a culinary master class in the techniques essential to cooking egg dishes, with 8 video demonstrations to guide you on poaching an egg, cooking a perfect omelet, making homemade mayonnaise, and more, along with color step-by-step photographs.Eggs are the basis for so many delicious culinary creations, and in this lesson you’ll learn the cooking fundamental techniques for elevating the everyday egg through soft-cooking, scrambling, baking, coddling, poaching, and frying. Video demonstrations by Martha Stewart Living food editor Sarah Carey will show you how to poach an egg, cook an omelet, and make mayonnaise. Then, practice your skills with recipes for tempting dishes such as Steamed Artichokes with Smoked Salmon, Poached Eggs, and Hollandaise; Huevos Rancheros; and Squash and Goat Cheese Frittata. Lesson 2 also includes the Basics, where you’ll learn about the equipment, knife skills, ingredients, and routines that will enable you to cook with confidence. Color photographs and video demonstrations teach you how to chop an onion, mince garlic, prep and chop fresh herbs, zest and suprême citrus, and more.

512 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 2, 2012

About the author

Martha Helen Stewart is an American retail businesswoman, writer, and television personality. As the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, focusing on home and hospitality, she gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, merchandising and e-commerce. She has written numerous bestselling books, was the publisher of Martha Stewart Living magazine and hosted two syndicated television programs: Martha Stewart Living, which ran from 1993 to 2004, and The Martha Stewart Show, which ran from 2005 to 2012.
In 2004, Stewart was convicted of felony charges related to the ImClone stock trading case; she served five months in federal prison for fraud and was released in March 2005. There was speculation that the incident would effectively end her media empire, but in 2005 Stewart began a comeback campaign and her company returned to profitability in 2006. Stewart rejoined the board of directors of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in 2011 and became chairwoman of her namesake company again in 2012. The company was acquired by Sequential Brands in 2015. Sequential Brands Group agreed in April 2019 to sell Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, including the Emeril brand, to Marquee Brands for $175 million with benchmarked additional payments.