Each contains a minimum of ingredients (the chocolate, four; the orange, two), and with patience and time, each can be made by even an inexperienced cook.

Even an inexperienced cook can make a pot-au-feu in its basic form.

They never have to answer tricky questions about ways to prepare it, since even inexperienced cooks know how to toss clumps of parsley onto dinner plates.

Palmer also increased profits, partly by hiring relatively inexperienced cooks and offering them training in lieu of high salaries.

These are not forgiving vegetables, and in the hands of an inexperienced cook, they can turn to mush.

For the inexperienced cook there is no substitute for a hands-on demonstration, making video a more effective teacher than lavishly illustrated cookbooks.

This is not difficult, even for an inexperienced cook.

All provide readers with simple and delicious recipes that can be prepared by even the most inexperienced cook.

(It is certainly better than roasting the chicken with the paper of liver and so forth still inside, as an inexperienced cook was once reported to have done.)

But one note for inexperienced cooks: it is impossible to fit three eight-inch circles on a jellyroll pan that is 10 by 15 inches.