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This book reflects the author's lifetime experiences with, and love of, a good nosh. It takes the novice would-be or have-to-be cook on a cooking odyssey. It does not simply present a collection of recipes, although the chosen 100 are an eclectic enticement presented in a novel how-to-do format. Rather, it guides the novice on how to begin, how to
shop, how to build a pantry and kitchen toolkit to even completing the challenge of planning, preparing and hosting an elegant home dinner party. It takes a novice cook to a purposeful one who can truly walk the walk from their kitchen to their table with confidence. In so doing, it can transform cooking as a chore to cooking as an enjoyable hobby. It did me, it can do you.
About the author
Graham Arnold is not a celebrity chef, not even a trained one. As a single-again dad with three children to feed, cooking became a necessity at a mid-age period of his life. Progressively, he ventured from truly basic meals to more adventurous ones. To guide him he drew upon his lifetime food experiences: from an inspiring homecookmother to a military career with postings throughout the world, including active service tours in Malaysia and Vietnam, then an academic career wherein he took his university higher-degree management programs to be conducted in host countries, extensively in Asia and to Europe. On retirement from the university, he was engaged in similarconsultancies. He also travelled privately to many parts of the world. As well as tasting his many food experiences, he was an astute observer, researcher and continuous learner on anything to do with food.
