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"The prolific Mark Bittman returns with a doorstop whose recipes neatly break down ingredients, prep and cook steps, variations and shortcuts, and suggested sides...Prediction: This book will be a standard gift for new cooks and off-to-college kids." --Scott Mowbray, Cooking Light "New York Times food writer Bittman returns with his How to Cook series, this time focusing on recipes that consider preparation time. Bittman believes we all have time to cook, we just need better recipes--and he does an excellent job of providing these dishes...At over a thousand pages, Bittman has delivered another brilliant, comprehensive reference." --Publishers Weekly, starred "He's been teaching us how to cook delicious food for years, and now Mark Bittman continues the tradition with a focus on innovative, quick meals. His newest project is so much more than your typical cookbook; it's a lifestyle guide for reinventing the efficiency with which we eat great food. Mark Bittman is one of my heroes and everyone can stand to have a copy of his newest book in their collection." --MARIO BATALI, chef, author, and entrepreneur "In How to Cook Everything Fast, Mark Bittman provides the reader with tools missing in most people's cooking repertoire: intuition and common sense. Read, cook, and repeat." --TOM COLICCHIO, chef and owner of Craft Restaurants "Cook AND Fast in the same title? Mark Bittman makes it possible to do both with delicious, healthy recipes that you can pull together quickly. This should be the go-to cookbook for anyone interested in returning to preparing real food for themselves and their families." --KATIE COURIC, global anchor for Yahoo! News and New York Times best-selling author "Who wouldn't like to make life easier in the kitchen? With hundreds of leisurely recipes, tips, methods, and instructions, Mark Bittman cooks next to you for a faster, effortless, and delicious outcome." --JACQUES PEPIN, cookbook author, teacher, and host of numerous PBS-TV cooking series "This is the most user-friendly cookbook for modern-day living I've ever seen. Damn you, Bittman! Now I have no excuse left to order takeout." --MEREDITH VIEIRA, award-winning journalist and host of The Meredith Vieira Show

The secret to cooking fast is cooking smart - how you choose and prepare ingredients and use your time in the kitchen. In How to Cook Everything Fast, Mark Bittman's latest innovative, comprehensive, must-have culinary reference, he shows how anyone can make 2,000 simple, incredibly flavourful dishes incredibly fast - in under 45, 30, even 15 minutes - including Split Whole Chicken and Vegetables, Skillet Meat Loaf, Bahn Mi, Potato and Spinach Saag, and Crisp Pork and Watermelon Tacos. Approaching every part of cooking with a fresh eye, Mark reimagines how to use ingredients, equipment, and techniques to boost speed, such as running ziti under the broiler and simplifying mole to its flavourful essentials. Even the recipe format enables efficiency by assigning prep work to natural downtimes that occur in cooking. The result is a truly easy-to-follow game plan for discovering an all-new repertoire of fantastic recipes and, most importantly, for becoming a faster cook every time you use the book.