The Haven's Kitchen Cooking School: Recipes and Inspiration to Build a Lifetime of Confidence in the Kitchen 
by Alison Cayne 
Destined to become a classic, this cookbook is my new go-to gift for showers and weddings. Beautifully illustrated, The Haven’s Kitchen Cooking School is well organized and perfect for the beginner and experienced cook alike. Teaching essential skills for success in the kitchen with lots of gorgeous photos and step by step clear, concise directions. Charming illustrations of necessary kitchen tools utilized in the recipes is also a nice touch and I learned quite a bit reading through the tool descriptions. For instance, “a ‘spider’ is the professional kitchen’s slotted spoon. A shallow wire basket secured to a handle, the ‘spider’ is a great tool for scooping items from hot oil when deep frying, or removing vegetables from hot water.” Highly recommended.

The Haven's Kitchen Cooking School by Alison Cayne is a cookbook full of wonderful tips, kitchen techniques and tools, and recipes that many home chef's would use. There isn't a photo for every recipe, but the photos included are beautiful. Would recommend this book for home bookshelves.

The Haven's Kitchen Cooking School is part cookbook and part cooking manual, with the emphasis  on the cooking manual. It has many useful tips and techniques for beginners, but even seasoned cooks could learn a thing or two from this book. The recipes included were not that appealing to me but I could definitely benefit from the instructional nature of the book. It contains many photos and step by step illustrations that are helpful in understanding the techniques and tools. The book is well organized and easy to follow. I think it would make a great wedding gift or a useful tool for anyone wishing to broaden their culinary knowledge.

The Havens Kitchen Cooking School cookbook will be the only cookbook in your collection that you will refer to time and time again.  Very easy to understand step by step with pictures and techniques to teach you cooking concepts, like pairing ingredients and spices, making the correct dressings for salad, making one dish bowls of food, layering flavors to make the perfect soup and more. I love their blog also. This will make a great gift for anyone who loves to cook or wants to know how to cook.

My apologies; I was unable to fully review the book since it wasn't in Kindle format.

The Haven's Kitchen Cooking School cookbook by Alison Cayne is an accessible cookbook for both novice and experienced cooks alike. The recipes are clearly written and illustrated making this a good book for learning how to cook. For more experienced cooks you will find recipes that teach how to prepare some of the newer ingredients such as Quinoa. I've cooked for a very long time, but I know little about cooking Quinoa. The Haven's Kitchen School cookbook Quinoa recipe explained how and why to rinse Quinoa for example.

You will find a "Teaching Recipe" (actually recipes) sprinkled throughout the cookbook. The Teaching Recipe will teach how to use a specific ingredient. For example you will find the Teaching Recipe Jose's Black  Beans that clearly tells about how to prepare and cook beans. There is a black bean recipe that follows showing how to prepare a recipe once the beans have been prepped.

I loved the Basic Skills segment of the book as this section covers such things as how to read a recipe or how to use salt in cooking.

There are plenty of color photos illustrating techniques and completed recipes.

You will find some of the following recipes in The Haven's Kitchen Cooking School cookbook:

One-Bowl Meals --- a master recipe that shows how to use a variety of ingredients to prepare a one-bowl meal.

Multigrain Breakfast Porridge

Quinoa Broccoli Patties

Latkes

How to Spatchcock a Chicken --- Four photos illustrating how Spatchcock a chicken for cooking

Roasted Carrot Soup

Omelet

Frisse Salad with Poached Eggs

Butter Lettuce with Blue Cheese, Dried Cherries, and Candied Walnuts

Sautéed Green Beans with Garlic

Ceviche

Grilled Steak 

Lamb Kofta

Sweet Chili Sauce

Habanero Hot Sauce

Pavlova

Poached Pears

Flourless Chocolate Cake to Commit to Memory

Fruit Galette

Recommend.

Review written after downloading a galley from NetGalley.