Bryan Miller - Cooking Basics For Dummies

Cooking Basics For Dummies, 4th Edition

by Bryan Miller, Marie Rama, and Eve Adamson

Cooking Basics For Dummies, 4th Edition

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About the Author

Bryan Miller is a food and wine writer and a former restaurant critic for The New York Times. He has written and co-written 11 books. In the past 25 years he has received numerous awards, including three writing awards from the James Beard Foundation, and the organizations prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.

Marie Rama grew up in the restaurant business surrounded by a large Italian family of food professionals and entrepreneurs. She has worked as a pastry chef, a recipe tester, and an account executive and spokesperson for national companies and associations such as Tabasco Sauce, The United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, Korbel Champagne, and Sunkist Growers. In addition to Cooking For Dummies, Ms. Rama also wrote Grilling For Dummies (with John Mariani) and is working on a cookbook that celebrates the many uses and irresistible enticement of bacon. Ms. Rama has two sons, Nicholas and William, and lives in Yonkers, New York with her husband and literary agent Mark Reiter. When shes not in the kitchen testing and researching new recipes, Ms. Rama is either volunteering for her favorite foundation, Yonkers Partners in Education, or playing golf.

Eve Adamson is a New York Times best-selling author who has written or coauthored over 50 books on food, cooking, dieting, and lifestyle subjects, including several other For Dummies guides, several books on the Mediterranean diet, and a book on craft beer. Eve is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and a self-taught home cook who loves to travel and sample the cuisines of different regions and cultures. She lives in Iowa City with her family, where she spends her days writing, cooking, planning her next trip, and contemplating remodeling her kitchen (pretty much in that order). To find out more, visit her Web site at www.eveadamson.com

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