With over twenty years of professional and practical cooking experience, Sydney Pemberton is the ideal person to turn a kitchen novice into a confident cook. Her new book, How to Cook Practically Anything, starts by giving the reader a good grounding in the basics, from how to boil an egg or cook a steak, then moves through the stages to equip you with the skills to produce beautiful, mouth-watering meals simply and efficiently. It also includes practical advice about what spices to keep, the tools you need in the kitchen, cooking terms, cuts of meat and even how to carve a roast. There are recipes for roasts, stir-fries, pastry, breads, pasta, grains and sauces, as well as tips on food storage. And being an Australian book means there's no need to convert measurements or decipher ingredient names. The humorist, Tracey Ullman, revealed: "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served nothing but leftovers. The original meal was never found." Readers of this book will prepare such memorable meals that there'll never be any leftovers!