This comprehensive guide to cooking includes over 275 recipes and techniques for every possible occasion, all with easy-to-follow instructions. Breaking down essential cookery, subject-by-subject, core techniques such as boiling an egg and making fresh pasta are presented with accompanying step-by-step photography. Readers can put their skills to the test and create classics like Couscous royal and Dauphinoise potatoes and turn their hands to a multitude of shop-stopping recipes. From Pork chops with miso lime-butter shallots, and Coriander and jalapeno ceviche, to Grilled peaches with ice cream and maple pecans and homemade baklava and brioche and contributing writers including Riaz Phillips, Karla Zazueta, and Verna Gao, this is the ultimate resource for home entertaining.

As clear and comprehensive as ever, the recipes are suitable for beginners as well as more experienced cooks while being a contemporary and refreshing alternative to traditional cookery courses. With all recipes photographed, this extensive cookbook provides all you need, and more, for a lifetime of cooking and entertaining at home.