This cookbook focuses on what information the modern cook needs to know and on the dishes, ingredients and techniques appropriate to busy 1990s lifestyles. This book adapts and refines techniques for the kinds of dishes modern cooks want to cook, whether pasta, vegetable, meat or fish, to give the simplest methods possible for the best results. The author seeks to answer what you really need to know about an ingredient, cooking technique or dish, with basic wisdom that many cookery books take for granted but which is so vital for modern cooks who have neither the time nor years of cookery experience behind them. It provides a culinary blueprint for the mid-1990s onwards.