Isa Moskowitz learned to cook from cookbooks, recipe by recipe. After a few decades of writing her own cookbooks, she knows what the people want: easy-to-follow instructions and accessible ingredients.

Each chapter is a building block to becoming a better, more competent cook. The book teaches readers to cook the way someone might learn a new instrument: master a couple of chords, and then start to put them together to form songs.

Each chapter starts with a fresh mission, and readers will cook their way through pastas, salads, sandwiches, bowls, sautés, sheet-pan suppers, and sweets—more than 125 recipes!—until they are ultimately the Best Cook Imaginable.

288 pages.