Cook, cook, cook, cook, cook.
It's useful for cooks to learn, or at least be curious, about a dish's origins, its ingredients, its cultural context and the nuances that makes it what it is before creating their own riff.
A cooking thermometer is especially useful for beginning cooks to determine if roasts, meats, and other dishes are adequately heated.
It's just as useful for home cooks as for a chef.
During the nearly 10 years she worked on it, Child had an absolute conviction — shared by almost no one — that her book would be useful to American cooks.
The chef Nick Nairn provides an enlightening commentary as well as a more sensible foil to the Bunteresque Smith, and it could even be that for all the camp flourishes, Iron Chef UK offers more useful tips for cooks than MasterChef.
The rest of the book is a dessert maker's guide, indispensable for the novice but also very useful for experienced cooks who might treasure the handy chart of baking pan capacities (for example, a 10-inch springform and a 9-by-13-by-2-inch 9-by-13-by-2-inch 9-by-13-by-2-inch 9-by-13-by-2-inch 9-by-13-by-2-inch 9-by-13-by-2-inchilk, you have six options).
Sony's second smartwatch (called, unimaginatively, the SmartWatch) was eventually augmented by some 200 custom applications in the Google Play Store, and Sony recently sought to make the thing even more useful by letting developers cook up their own firmware for it.
When we know what we don't know, we think we have useful knowledge, which leads us to cook up ideas about what needs to be changed.
It might be useful for aspiring male cooks to know that real men don't buy All Clad pots and pans or fancy cutlery.
