Better Cooking: Life-Changing Skills & Recipes to Tempt & Teach

"This is the very book you need to teach you how to be inspired, confident and happy in the kitchen. Like its author, it's a rambunctious delight!"
--Nigella Lawson

"The kind of book that makes anyone feel welcome. Deliciously fun, informative and simply makes me smile."
--Yotam Ottolenghi

"Generous, empowering and original--like having your own cheerleader in the kitchen."
--Anna Jones

Let Alice Zaslavsky, international bestselling author of the James Beard Book Awards nominee, In Praise of Veg, lead you on a journey to confident, intuitive cooking -- because if you already enjoy the eating part, you have everything it takes to get better at the cooking part too. This vibrant kitchen manual contains stacks of vegetable-forward recipes that you'll want to cook on a weekly basis and handy kitchen skills and thrills, to help build the foundations for a lifetime of better cooking. With Better Cooking there's no pressure to be a perfect cook, but everyone can aspire to be a better cook, and therein lies the fun.

To help all cooks -- from beginner to experienced -- become better cooks, every recipe, tip and trick acts as another stepping stone to finding joy and confidence in the kitchen. Inside, you'll find chapters including:

- Slapdash: really outstanding stuff simply thrown together

- On Autopilot: your new go-tos for quick and easy weeknight meals

- Making the Most of It: what to do with all those leftovers

- Loosen Your Shoulders: weekend projects and entertaining

- Seriously Good Sweeties: like, seriously good

Whether you're already a dab hand, you're a reluctant home cook who finds cooking a bit meh, or you're starting from 'which way do I hold a knife?', Better Cooking has all the inspiration, hand-holding and cheerleading you need to relax into the rhythm and truly enjoy your time in the kitchen.