The New Penguin Cookery Book

Eating well starts with shopping well buying the best available ingredients: good unsalted butter, a wild salmon, seasonal fruit and vegetables, whole spices rather than ground ones - and treating them carefully and with respect. Good fresh ingredients can be expensive, but a small amount of something costly can usually be balanced by other cheaper ingredients.

Cooking need not be time-consuming either: many dishes can be prepared and put on the table in half an hour or less, others require the same amount of time in preparation and can look after themselves as they simmer or stew. This book will help you acquire cooking skills which will enhance not just your table but your life as well.