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Best book(s) to learn the art of cooking? [closed]

I've browsed through a few "best book to learn to cook" questions, but the questions weren't specific enough for me. So here are my interests: I don't want a cookbook with any recipes; I want to ...
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Finding the right cooking classes?

I'm new to this whole cooking business. Not - can only cook spaghetti bolognese new. More - "Frozen pizza? Nope - that's hard. Order in". However - there's hope for me yet! I recognize how much of a ...
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How to understand the effect of individual ingredients of recipes?

I like cooking and I try different recipes from web/book. But I am not satisfied by just cooking using recipes, I want to understand what tastes individual ingredients bring to a recipe and what ...
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How do I cook for just one person? any good cookbooks?

Being single again, I'm thinking it's time I learned how to cook for myself, problem is knowing how to cook, and buy, buying being a significant part of the problem, in quantities that will be just ...
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Is there a single source for the basics of cooking (sauces, herbs, oil usage, etc)?

I'm a decent cook but I know that there are huge gaps in my knowledge of the fundamentals of cooking. I assume that aspiring chefs learn a great deal of this in culinary school but I was hoping that ...
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What are some good recipe resources? [closed]

When closing questions that ask for recipes, I try to add a comment explaining why, and I would like to point to a resource for recipes. Is there any advice we can give to these people? I usually use ...
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What's a good resource for knowing what spices are, and what to use them on?

I know what spices like garlic and black pepper are, and what foods you typically put them on. But spices like cardamom, rosemary, thyme, paprika, whatever, completely elude me. I haven't found a good ...