Reddit reviews Taste & Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking [A Cookbook]

I can't recommend Taste and Technique enough. The dishes require skill but are also pretty accessible so they are designed to show you fundamental techniques you should be acquiring in the kitchen. The way it's written can be more explanatory as opposed to just outlining a recipe so I find it helpful to make typical recipe list to work with when I try out new dishes from the book.
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I bought his sometime ago, and learned a lot from it. I do food photography and it's gave me inspiration on to plate and present as well.

There's a whole lot of cookbooks in that space of "you know how to cook already, here's a slightly more advanced set of recipes" that you can dive into. Deep-diving into a single cookbook for a while will expand you "outward" and give you an understanding of a particular cuisine or technique and let you stock your pantry around that.

Just speaking personally about what i've done.

Taste and Technique: Recipes to Elevate your Home Cooking was one that i cooked a good deal of recipes from and it seriously upped my game. It's French/Pacific Northwest recipes that use (relatively) easy to find ingredients and provide seasonal variations on most of the dishes.

If you have access to a decent spice market, Ottolenghi's books are pretty good for expanding your repertiore. Jerusalem and Plenty More.

If you have access to good produce, i know people that rave about Six Seasons but i haven't used it yet. I also like Lucky Peach's power vegetables but the ironically kitschy photos are a little off putting (but the recipes are super solid).

People need to break this mentality that cooking knowledge needs to be "deep" like you're going to level up until you're gordon ramsay. Cooking knowledge past the basics is better thought of as "wide" wherein you expose yourself to a variety of techniques and cooking styles and work them into your repertoire, where it becomes an expression of your personal craft.

I really enjoyed The Food Lab and continue to go back to it. After you've had some time with it, check out Taste & Technique. It's another great home cook cookbook, and like The Food Lab, it looks great on a coffee table.