An Intuitive Cook's Book Hardcover – December 17, 2025

Do you ever go looking for a recipe online, find some website claiming to make the best whatever, and think to yourself:Wow, this is terrible!The food might be decent, but why are you telling me about your grandmother's kitchen?Why isn't there any detail on how to do step 3?Why are there 29 separate directions in this paragraph-long bullet point?This book gets straight to the point with technique-forward recipes and an armada of tips, tricks, and articles dedicated to teaching the art of cooking, not just documenting another copy-paste recipe that someone's mom supposedly used to make [though some of these recipes were certainly my mother's!].An Intuitive Cook's Book teaches the principles of cooking for new cooks and seasoned chefs alike. Complete with how-to guides for cooking methodologies, articles about individual ingredients and food groups, and over 50 technical recipes, this book teaches the intuitive principles of cooking and uses individual recipes to demonstrate how to think about cooking, improvise with ease, and master your craft.This is not just a cookbook, it's a manual complete with essays and asides that illustrate how to be perceptive, plentiful footnotes that add context to instructions and decisions, useful diagrams and scores indicating the complexity or quality of a dish, and some crass humor to boot.No frills. No meaningless descriptions. Damn good food. Read more