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150 Simple Recipes to Get You Started in the Kitchen

by Mollie Katzen

Mollie Katzen revolutionized the way America eats with her ground breaking best-seller, Moosewood Cookbook. Thirty-plus years and six million copies of her cookbooks later, she's still at it! In her new book, Get Cooking 150 Simple Recipes to Get You Started in the Kitchen (HarperStudio/ $24.99/ October 13, 2009), Mollie reaches out to cooks of all levels (including rank beginners), teaching everyone how to make great meals with affordable supermarket ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions that will get delicious results – as soon as tonight! Even the most inexperienced food lovers will have fun making easy soups, favorite pasta dishes, meat, potatoes, and vegetable sides – along with a host of Mollie's signature vegetarian entrées, burgers of all persuasions, impressive party snacks, and classic homemade desserts.

If you're tired of pizza and broke from carry-out – and you just realized that after two hours of watching cooking shows on TV there's nothing to eat for dinner – this book is for you! Here's your chance to take charge and get cooking with terrific, economical options and a great new set of skills that can make you happier and healthier.

Mollie Katzen created Get Cooking for cooks of all skill levels and tastes (meat-lovers and vegetarians alike). With her signature warm, clear, helpful voice, she:


Illustrated throughout with Mollie's own color photography (she took a picture of each finished dish as she tested the recipes). The perfect cookbook to present to college students for their first apartment, young couples eager to cook dinner at home, or anyone who would like to do more in the kitchen than simply open a can of soup or zap something in the microwave. It's time to Get Cooking!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Listed by the New York Times as one of the best-selling cookbook authors of all time, Mollie Katzen is also an award-winning illustrator and designer as well as a popular public speaker. Best known as the creator of the groundbreaking classics Moosewood Cookbook,The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, and Still Life with Menu, Mollie has also written and illustrated the children's cookbook trilogy: Pretend Soup (ÒThe gold standard of children's cookbooks..." - The New York Times), Honest Pretzels, and Salad People; Vegetable Heaven (winner of the International Cookbook Revue Best in Category award); Sunlight Café; a collaboration with Walter Willett, M.D., of Harvard, Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less; and the bestselling The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without. Her new Get Cooking project is slated to become a series of books and videos, so stay tuned for further adventures!

TITLE: GET COOKING: 150 Simple Recipes to Get You Started in the Kitchen
AUTHOR: Mollie Katzen
PUBLISHER: HarperStudio
PUB DATE: October 13, 2009
PRICE: $24.99
PAGES: 288
ISBN # 978-0-06-173243-0
www.get-cooking.com

Get Cooking will be accompanied by the October 2009 launch of its companion website, get-cooking.com. A state-of-the-art, video-powered website, get-cooking.com will feature Mollie Katzen and friends in all-new, beautifully produced videos that will demonstrate basic cooking techniques and share highly useful advice ranging from choosing and using knives to electing a modest, affordable collection of pots and pans to making polenta and pilaf. Additional topics will include how to cut onions, chop broccoli, stir-fry vegetables, wrangle potatoes, throw together a chicken cutlet, select the right cantaloupe, pull off a 1-minute omelet, and assemble the world's best grilled cheese sandwich. Visitors can view the videos anytime and join the site (it's free!) to leave their own advice or comments. Select recipes from Get Cooking will be available on the site, and related recipes from the archive at MollieKatzen.com will be linked as bonus material to the videos, making the site a practical and useful tool for novice cooks and anyone interested in expanding their cooking knowledge and skills.

View a slideshow of photos of recipes from the book:

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