My goal with these videos is to pass along all the best tips I've gotten, and most importantly, teach you to love cooking as much as I do. To be sure, there are several recipes in here that look just as impressive as anything you might find in a Michelin-starred restaurant, but with relatively simple ingredients and techniques accessible to home chefs. After becoming the youngest-ever finalist on MasterChef, Nick rapidly garnered a loyal, eager-to-learn audience for his award-winning video content. On that note of speaking to his audience, this might also be the perfect cookbook for the social media age because not only is the author apparently a social media cooking star of some sort, but he’s also included QR codes throughout the book leading the reader to videos demonstrating how to prepare some (not all) of the recipes. Your most annoying film friend’s favorite studio, A24, has put together a new cookbook with some of cinema’s weirdest and most memorable meals.

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Now let’s cut the maudlin bullshit, smash two beers over our heads like “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, and get to the damn list of this month’s best cookbooks. Nick cooks almost daily, drawing inspiration from the many chefs he's worked with as well as his diverse extended family. A new edition of 2019’s immensely popular food gardening guide, Veg in One Bed is the perfect volume for anyone interested in growing produce throughout the year.DiGiovanni's clear passion for food will inspire home cooks of all levels to embark on their own culinary adventures. Building on a foundation of staple recipes such as basic pasta dough and homemade butter, Nick shares a mouthwatering selection of his favorite recipes. Steak glistens, honey drips off the buttermilk fried chicken and a ranch wedge salad is photographed on a broken plate (explained in the photo’s caption). Also, if you have even one square foot of backyard (or have a beloved gardening freak in your life), this reissued masterpiece about growing veggies at home should definitely be on your shelf.

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I found a dangerous recipe, one that didn’t match the photo because the ingredients were clearly different, and one that was straight up nasty. Stacey Mei Yan Fong’s 50 Pies, 50 States is a fine example of how I wish more people approached writing cookbooks: by asking me to cook and eat a bunch of pie, but also by having an extremely unique, gripping, fun story to tell. To me, cookbooks are one of the keys to living a good life at home (the others being owning a Nintendo Switch and an espresso machine).

I really hope she’s planning a sequel, but with pizza (and please HMU if you need help testing ‘em). During his final year at Harvard in 2018 he auditioned for Gordon Ramsay's MasterChef, becoming the youngest finalist in the competition. Explore a library of QR codes linking to video tutorials showcasing key cooking techniques, from holding a chef's knife and making a piping bag to pronouncing "gnocchi" the correct way. I explained the chemistry behind this to my son before doing it for the review and, as predicted, hot grease exploded all over my kitchen. Naturally, there’s also a massive list of salads, sides, and condiments (in case you’re too good for mayo and mustard).

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With millions of followers on social media, young home chef Nick DiGiovanni believes that anyone can be an inventive cook. The theme here seems to be interesting, creative, restaurant-quality types of dishes, but which can be (relatively) easily prepared by home cooks in a home kitchen.Green goddess dressing tastes great on everything, but it pairs particularly well with cucumbers for a crunchy, creamy, and refreshing salad. Nick DiGiovanni makes me believe that I could actually make a lot of these delicious looking recipes. Hard covered and well indexed, the cookbook sets out to prove that anyone can cook, and it inspires us to do so. He auditioned for Gordon Ramsay's MasterChef TV competition in 2018 during his senior year at Harvard.

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Home-cooked food doesn't have to be over-the-top, fussy, or time-intensive to be absolutely amazing. Yes, he’s drop dead gorgeous, and the first one or two times the knife hits the chopping board in one of his reels we take a short gasp, but after that, we feel more blasé than entertained. Obviously everyone’s tastes are different so no cookbook ever manages to be 100% for anyone (except perhaps its own author), but this one is closer aligned to my tastes than most. Interested in creating a drinking game with Freddie’s homemade moonshine from The Master (which definitely has paint thinner in it)? As author Maunika Gowardhan explains early on in Tandoori Home Cooking, the tandoor is a straw-strengthened clay vessel that’s used to bake and cook.On that note, with my ever-growing collection, I’m getting close to needing David Harbour’s massive, hall-length shelves (as well as his body and life). Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect from this book, but now that I’ve read it, I can see why Gordon Ramsay was willing to put his name on it and supply a foreword. As a proud Persian, I’m happy to say that the origin of the modern cookie can be traced back to seventh-century Persia. Nick cooks almost daily, drawing inspiration from the many chefs he’s worked with as well as his diverse extended family. This new honey-centric cookbook is less Pablo Honey and more “ Honey” by Robyn, which is to say that it will make you horny for one of nature’s greatest delights.