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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do not get her cooks illustrated. As an adult who can cook I find that magazine too hard and way to fussy.

I'd recommend the better homes and gardens checkered cookbook.  The recipes are pretty easy and it has lots of explaination in the front.  It also has pretty color photos which make you want to eat the food. [/quote]

Foo. Cook's Illustrated is like the Choose Your Own Adventure Cookbook. It's amazing because it teaches food sense and how recipes work and why they work. Ultimately, this is way more valuable than just teaching someone how to cook via a list with no understanding of why or how that list exists in that order.

Of course, cooking is a learning curve and I can't take issue with your Better Homes req. That was one of my first cookbooks and did make me feel like a success when I turned something out.

For the OP, I second the Mark Bittman books as a good solid place to start and would add Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone because it is more than recipes; it's like a cookbook of vegetable sense.[/quote]

I'm the one who recommended  cooks illustrated. 
This exactly. It tells you why things work... And more importantly why things don't.  It's not a bit fussy or hard. It's written very simply and directly. [/quote]

I like Cook's Country -- same publisher and lots of detail on recipe development but balanced with more straightforward recipes and it has color photographs.

I'd suggest "How to Cook Without a Book" -- it provides a lot of basic templates for recipes and basic techniques -- how to saute chicken breasts, make a fritatta, fried rice, simple soups, basic tomato sauce.  I turn to it more than any other cookbook for everyday dinners and have just started teaching my kids some of the basics (they are 10 and 12).[/quote]

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