5.0

I’m basically past cookbooks at this point, and this is so much more and better - it’s a cooking class, beautifully illustrated, warmly written, and incredibly approachable. As a vegetarian, a lot of the information on meat wasn’t particularly helpful, but the science of it was still interesting. The chapter on salt has already changed my cooking so much for the better. This and The Vegetarian Flavor Bible are the two mainstays of my kitchen; with them, regular recipe books become almost useless.