The New Cooking School Cookbook: Advanced Fundamentals

Attend your personal culinary grad school and learn to cook your best, with 100 advanced courses full of 400+ recipes and new-school techniques given by 20 expert test-kitchen instructors.

Finally, a cookbook written for confident home cooks ready to explore new territory and learn by cooking spectacular recipes. Travel beyond the basics into 100 engaging themed courses such as Stuffed Pasta, Pho, Grilled Salad, Koji Magic, and Soufflés.

Enhance your skills and satisfy your curiosity by whipping up creamy ice cream and gelato, frying crunchy chicken, rolling out and shaping gnocchi (and gnudi) with ease, fermenting vegetables, and perfecting pastry cream to fill choux au craquelin, Boston cream pie, and bolo bao. Within the course structure, recipes are supplemented by illustrated core techniques, food science sidebars, and infographic resource pages packed with valuable behind-the-recipe information. You will confidently learn to:
• make your own cheese
• be your own butcher
• fearlessly fry
• bake challah, baguettes, and croissants
• put the icing on all kinds of cakes.