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Fabulously fresh recipes for every season. Each issue of Fine Cooking is bursting with can't-miss recipes, time-saving tips, and proven techniques from the kitchens of Americas finest chefs and this volume of recipes celebrating the freshest of seasonal ingredients is a compilation of the best from the best. Organized by course, Fine Cooking Fresh features step-by-step photos that will help even the most inexperienced cook whip up wonderful drinks, appetizers, soups, salads, light lunches, sides, and desserts, as well as delicious dinners of pasta, seafood, chicken, beef, and pork. In addition, the editors provide guides to getting the most from vegetables and herbs, plus a special Freezing & Thawing 101.

Why is "Fine Cooking" consistently ranked as one of the top five most popular cooking magazines published today? Because not only does it offer thousands of devoted readers delicious and dependable recipes, but it shows them how to do more in less time. This delectable, year-end collection serves up dozens of the magazine's most mouth-watering dishes, conveniently organized by course and ingredient. The recipes cover every course, including appetizers, soups, sandwiches, pastas, an extensive variety of entrees -- from poultry and fish to beef and pork -- side dishes, and an array of tempting desserts. And as the magazine is famed for, plenty of how-to techniques, tips, and short-cuts are included. For cooks of all skill levels, "Fine Cooking Annual, Vol. 3 "will solve a year's worth of "what's for dinner" dilemmas.

"Fine Cooking" magazine is an essential tool for people who love to cook. This second annual volume is sure to become an essential reference in every cook's library. A culinary celebration of a year's worth of recipes, this book is overflowing with delicious and sure-fire dishes: appetizers, soups, sandwiches, pastas, all manner of main courses, sensational side dishes and a myriad of delectable desserts. Completely illustrated with over 300 full-color photographs of every dish, the book also includes the kitchen how-to technique sequences the magazine is known for, as well as useful tips, and short-cuts.

This is the definitive cookbook on Italian cuisine. The author is one of the foremost teachers of Italy's revered cooking techniques with more than 20 years of teaching and cooking experience. Giuliano Bugialli's incomparable cookbook has been updated, expanded and beautifully redesigned, including:• Over 300 recipes from Tuscany and other regions of Italy• Suggested dinner menus and wine recommendations• Chapters on pasta, breads, sauces, antipasti, meat and fish, poultry, risotto, vegetables, and desserts• Improved ingredient lists, revised wine lists, updated notes on olive oil, Italian herbs, and cheeses• 75 detailed, easy-to-follow line drawings

The Fine Art of Italian Cooking is considered the definitive cookbook on Italian cuisine, and Giuliano Bugialli is one of the foremost teachers of that country's revered cooking techniques. Now, this incomparable cookbook has been updated, expanded, and beautifully redesigned. With over 300 recipes, including 30 specially researched for this edition, and 75 detailed easy-to-follow line drawings, this complete revision has made the classic cookbook even better.Bugialli focuses on the extraordinary. range of Tuscan cooking and includes popular recipes from the other regions of Italy The book's extensive chapters cover every kind of pasta -- fresh, dried, stuffed -- breads, sauces, antipasti, meat and fish, poultry, risotti, vegetables, and the wonderful range of Italian desserts -- from simple poached fruit to magnificent filled pastries and tortes. Among the dishes are: risotto with spinach; ossobuco with peas; Florentine style polenta with meat sauce; Italian spongecake.Bugialli has refined and corrected the entire text. The ingredients lists, instructions and cooking times for all the recipes have been improved and clarified, wine lists have been revised, and notes on such staples as olive oil, dried Italian herbs, and cheeses have been updated to reflect the public's increased knowledge of and interest in Italian cuisine.In its elegant modernized format, loaded with expert advice accumulated in Bugialli's nearly twenty years of teaching and cooking experience, the revised Fine Art of Italian Cooking will continue to bring the great Italian culinary tradition to the American table.

Need a cool way to handle hot chiles? Looking to cut down on kitchen clean-up? Let the readers, contributors, and editors of "Fine Cooking" magazine show you the way. "How to Break an Egg" is a one-of-a-kind resource of more than 1,400 kitchen-tested tips, shortcuts, and ingenious solutions to culinary emergencies, all organized in an easy-to-access format for quick reference or more leisurely reading. Look under Basil in the Ingredients chapter and you'll find tips for drying it, keeping its bright green color, and making your pesto go further. Look under Cookies in the Cooking chapter for clever ways to roll out cookie dough without it sticking, or to form perfectly shaped cookies, or to get just the right texture you want in your chocolate chip. You'll also discover tips on cookware and utensils, serving, storage, clean-up, and kitchen safety. If disaster strikes, flip immediately to When Things Go Wrong, an invaluable chapter of troubleshooting charts, whether your souffle is falling, your cheese sauce is curdling, or you've just discovered you don't have the right size pan for the cake you're in the middle of mixing up. In Handy Kitchen Techniques, you'll find 42 basic prep techniques, from trussing a chicken to clarifying butter, illustrated step-by-step in full color. The perfect reference for cooks at any level, "How to Break an Egg" will be your indispensable go-to kitchen resource. "In my cooking classes and on my radio show, I get those thorny questions regarding recipe disasters. Phew! Now I won't hve to make up 'creative answers' anymore. For the solution to every culinary dilemma, run out right now and pick up a copy of, "How to Break an Egg,"" --TomDouglas, restaurateur and author of "Tom's Big Dinners" "No kitchen is totally complete unless this book is on the shelf. It's a wealth of information, and I personally could not do without it!" --Paula Deen, author of "Paula Deen&Friends: Living it Up, Southern Style" "How do you create a warm place to proof bread or make a quick cup of buttermilk? Ever think of cutting cheesecake with a fishing line or defatting stock with ice cubes? The answers to these and hundreds of other practical questions rarely addressed in even the most sophisticated cookbooks are provided in this revolutionary new reference manual no serious cook can do without. I've waited a lifetime for an authoritative, sensible, reliable kitchen companion such as "How to Break an Egg" and cannot recommend the book highly enough. Just reading through it is an invaluable class in itself." --James Villas, author of "Crazy for Casseroles" and "Biscuit Bliss" "This is a terrific resource reference book and one that I think every cook, whether just beginning or old pro, will find helpful on a regular basis. "Fine Cooking" has been one of my favorite culinary magazines for a long time and "How to Break an Egg" reflects their friendly, researched, and illustrated approach that I look forward to reading every month." --John Ash, restaurateur and author of "John Ash Cooking One on One" "A good chef never serves his or her mistakes. Now you don't have to. Finally a fix-it manual for your kitchen." --Tom Colicchio, Chef/Owner of Craft restaurants and Gramercy Tavern