How to Cook Without a Book

2000 edition

2018 edition

I bought the original book when it was released. It gave me a lot of good ideas for streamlining and for different combos of things I usually made (such as omelet ingredients, etc.), though I'd been cooking long enough to use the book as a reminder rather than all the time. I recently lent it to a young working mother who likes it.

Then I discovered this newer edition. 

I gave to it my oldest daughter who needs streamlining ideas, especially since she works a full time job and has two little ones. She's delighted with the book and has made several recipes. 

It especially speaks to her generation with some of the ingredient combinations, new cooking ideas (such as one baking sheet roasting all the dinner ingredients), etc. Yet it retains enough of the older information that it is useful to anyone. I mean, pasta sauce is pasta sauce for all right?

This is going to be the book I give to newly married couples and people cooking on their own for the first time. Truly invaluable.