Suddenly Cooking - Kitchen Essentials

Suddenly Cooking - Kitchen essentials is your go-to-guide for all your behind the scenes cooking needs. Your user guide to essential cooking equipment, basic chopping & food preparation techniques, pictorial ingredients dictionary with over 200 items & food translation chart - American, British & Australian English. Whether you are a beginner or a more experienced cook, here you will find all the information you need to set up a new kitchen or get to know your way around an old one. Practical and portable - take it to the store and shop with your visual ingredients dictionary or finally figure out what all that equipment is in your kitchen and how to use it, or perch it on the bench next to tonight´s recipe and take the sting out of cooking by learning how to chop. Putting food on the table day after day need not be a chore!

Suddenly Cooking - Kitchen essentials is your go-to-guide for all your behind the scenes cooking needs. Your user guide to essential cooking equipment, basic chopping & food preparation techniques, pictorial ingredients dictionary with over 200 items & food translation chart - American, British & Australian English. Whether you are a beginner or a more experienced cook, here you will find all the information you need to set up a new kitchen or get to know your way around an old one. Practical and portable - take it to the store and shop with your visual ingredients dictionary or finally figure out what all that equipment is in your kitchen and how to use it, or perch it on the bench next to tonight´s recipe and take the sting out of cooking by learning how to chop. Putting food on the table day after day need not be a chore! Make your kitchen cooking friendly and stock up on essential equipment and utensils, and throw out those band-aids and antiseptic cream by learning how to chop using the fully illustrated tutorials. And if you can´t tell an eggplant from an aubergine then the pictorial food dictionary can help you identify all the ingredients you are likely to use no matter what flavour English you speak.

Sophie Ruggles is a cook, food writer, food stylist/photographer and restauranter. In 2003 she took a leap of faith and moved with her family from her Australian home to Barcelona, Spain where she opened the city´s first Australasian eatery, EMU Bar. These days Sophie continues to live and work in the food industry in Barcelona and has all ten fingers in many different pies including writing the Suddenly Cooking book series.