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[quote=Anonymous]Alton Brown's Good Eats is a good place to start. I think it's helpful to understand the why and how of cooking, so that you can get a sense of why the recipe unfolds the way it does. He's also a good tutor to learn how to riff on a particular ingredient or technique -- that way you're not buying basil for one recipe and chucking the rest. Instead, you learn how to say "OK, I'm using the green onions for miso soup on Monday. I'll have some left over, so I can do quesadillas/bulgogi/frittata on Thursday and use up the rest." Joy of Cooking is another good place to learn how/why. Honestly, though, practice is what's going to do it. Not just knife work or stirring technique, but learning to map out your battle plan, do two things at once, use your ears and nose as well as your eyes (hmmm, that pan's sounding dry -- better add some more liquid) -- this stuff is only going to get easier if you do it, and do it regularly.[/quote]
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