Make a quick home-cooked meal tonight! Ziti with Creamy Gorgonzola Sauce. Shrimp Marinara. Broiled or Grilled Chicken with Pesto. Stir-Fried Spicy Beef with Basil. With "How to Cook Everything[trademark]: Quick Cooking", great-tasting, satisfying dishes like these can be made in 30 minutes or less! Mark Bittman, the award-winning author of the bestselling kitchen classic "How to Cook Everything[trademark]", shares his favorite simple - and infinitely flexible-quick recipes. You'll be able to prepare family-pleasing everyday meals, spur-of-the-moment dinners for friends, even special-occasion feasts.To inspire you and help you plan your meals, you'll find Bittman's straight talk on cooking and special features, including: creative recipe variations and ideas; tips for shopping, preparing, and cooking the recipes; illustrations to demystify trickier techniques; menu suggestions for a weeknight family dinner classic, an elegant dinner party, and more; and, at-a-glance icons highlighting recipes done in 20 minutes or less.

Author Biography

MARK BITTMAN is the author of more than thirty books, including the How to Cook Everything series and the #1 New York Times bestseller VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health . . . for Good. He was a food columnist, opinion columnist, and the lead magazine food writer at the New York Times, where he started writing in 1984 and remained for more than thirty years. Bittman has starred in four television series, including Showtime's Emmy-winning Years of Living Dangerously. He is a longtime Today regular and has made hundreds of television, radio, and podcast appearances, including on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Real Time with Bill Maher, and CBS's The Dish; and on NPR's All Things Considered, Fresh Air, and Morning Edition. Bittman has written for countless publications and spoken at dozens of universities and conferences; his 2007 TED talk "What's wrong with what we eat?" has almost five million views. He was a distinguished fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and a fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He has received six James Beard Awards, four IACP Awards, and numerous other honors. Bittman is currently special advisor on food policy at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, where he teaches and hosts a lecture series. He is also the editor in chief of Heated. His most recent book is his history of food and humanity, Animal, Vegetable, Junk.