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As if whipping up a meal for your family nearly every single day of the year weren’t intimidating enough, here’s a must-have cookbook from a two-time Michelin star chef to stir things up for you.
But set all your feelings of culinary inadequacy aside and crack open this cookbook for a fun and useful read. This book really is the everyday, run-of-the-mill version of a guy named Marcus, living and cooking for his family in his East Sussex country abode. He just happens to be a Michelin-starred chef to boot.
This down-to-earth edition is packed with useful tips and techniques that will bring out the best in your hearty, homecooked family meals. In Marcus Everyday, Wareing takes his decades of experience as a restaurateur and chef, turning it all into the simplest timeless instructions for every basic cooking skill, from how to sear the perfect steak and pair it with impeccable mashed potatoes to the perfect omelette.
Our personal favorite part of this cookbook has to be ‘Waste Not Want Not’, an entire chapter focused on maximizing flavors and minimizing waste, all while making legit restaurant-quality meals at home. And yes, we were skeptical at first, expecting a slew of recommendations for fancy devices and hard-to-acquire ingredients. What we got was the exact opposite, including how to grow basic herbs in a windowsill pot or a small garden, if you have one.
Released in 2019, we truly believe this may become the must-have cookbook of 2020 and one of the few essential guides for everyone who loves or needs to cook at home.
With the onset of a global pandemic of historical proportions, over a billion new home cooks are either just learning to cook for a family or are finding they need to, quite literally, put food on the table every day. Healthy, well-rounded meals made at home are essential to building and maintaining immune systems. Eating healthy sounds fine and dandy, until we try to put it into practice – and daily. As we’ve all figured out over the first few months of this year, it takes a lot more planning, effort, and skill than any of us expected. This book covers a lot of that.
Would this particular edition have been our choice for what we’ve dubbed the must-have cookbook of the year in the ‘old normal’ just months ago? Probably not. It may have been among our top ten, but what the world is looking for now are essentials and actionable cooking tips. And this here cookbook is it, in a mere 288 pages.
Whether you’re cooking for one or preparing a culinary weekend bash for extended family and friends, chef Marcus Wareing has it all covered in eight easy chapters of Marcus Everyday.
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