Taste of Home: Cooking School Cookbook: 400 + Simple to Spectacular Recipes

To assist you in your quest for great cooking: 2 Good Cookbooks for you to learn from: Taste of Home Cooking School: Cooking School Cookbook There is also How to Cook Everything: The Basics from Marc Bittman. I have the second one in my kitchen and still reference it every so often. especially if trying a new ingredient or dish. The second has a whole chapter about the different stages of boiling water. evidently there is more to it than you realized.