Our Favorite Recipes from How To Cook Everything

Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold is the Executive Editor of Cubby, and one of Apartment Therapy Media’s first full-time editors from way back when. She was the founding Design and Lifestyle Editor for Kitchn and the Managing Editor for Apartment Therapy’s green living site, Re-Nest (RIP). After a few years offline and then working elsewhere, she’s back to share ideas about design, kids, and family life. It’s helpful that she now has two little kids and lots of thoughts about all those things. She lives with said kids and their father in St. Paul, MN.
published Oct 21, 2015
pinterest
comments
We independently select these products—if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. All prices were accurate at the time of publishing.
Post Image
(Image credit: Amazon)

There are so, so many great recipes in Bittman’s cooking bible, it’s almost impossible to choose just a few. It’s one of the most comprehensive cookbooks out there, touching on almost anything you could ever want to know (hence the title). Every cook should have a copy. Here are just a few memorable recipes.

Our Favorite Recipes from How To Cook Everything

1. Crab cakes

Bittman’s crab cake recipe is great. Just solid and reliably flavorful, with an emphasis on crab and less on the bread crumbs. We came back from Seattle for the first time with Dungeness crab in a box and it was our go-to. – Carrie

2. The illustrative tutorials

This isn’t a recipe per se, but the illustrations in that book of how to cut different vegetables and how to handle different cuts of meat were a huge help in [my formative cooking] years. – Carrie

3. Eggplant Parmesan

An eggplant parm where you can really taste the eggplant! – Cambria

4. Duxelles

The only way to eat mushrooms, ever. – Cambria

Buy it → How To Cook Everything: Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition, $20 at Amazon

Readers, tell us: What are your favorite recipes or tutorials from Bittman’s How to Cook Everything?

Filed in:
Cookbooks
Recipe Roundup