Way beyond recipes, and written by a chef educator, this book is for young adults, the future homemakers of America, who want to learn the methods behind scratch cooking. As Good As It Gets Volume One teaches the fundamental methods of cooking from scratch the way the author's Italian and Scottish immigrant parents did it and the way the culinary professionals still do it today. Whether you are male or female, young or old, preparing to take on your first apartment, move into your first dorm room or cross the marriage threshold, you need to read this book and prepare these foods, her way. When you are done, you will have the basic skills on which you can build your own family food legacy as the author has built hers, thanks to her parents who showed her that it is around the dining table that good friends are made and families unite. At the end of the day, good food and good people coming together is as good as it gets.