Cooking Resources

Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks

By Linda Carucci. Grades 9 and up. Provides indispensable everyday secrets and shortcuts that professional chefs use constantly in their cooking. Each of the more than 100 sensational recipes offers truly useful guidelines and tips. The recipes g... More.

How to Break an Egg

Grade 8 and up. A one-of-a-kind resource of more than 1,400 kitchen-tested tips, shortcuts, and ingenious solutions to culinary emergencies, all organized in an easy-to-access format for quick reference. Discover tips on i... More.

Betty Crocker® Why it Works: Insider Secrets to Great Food

Grade 9 and up. Science is the added ingredient that makes this cookbook irresistible to all types of cooks. Most cookbooks emphasize the what (ingredients) and how (instructions). This cook book includes why! Each of the 120 contemporary and cla... More.

How Baking Works

Second edition. By Paula Figoni. Grade 9 and up. This book takes the future pastry chef and baker through the entire baking process, emphasizing the “whys” at work behind basic techniques for a better understanding of the reactions in... More.