Good Cooking: The New Basics CookDisc (DVD) — With an emphasis on technique and style, our host, chef/author Jill Dupleix, brings her down-under Australian charm to this instructional DVD CookDisc. Jill provides easy to replicate recipes with step-by-step tips and techniques and guides novices over any fears they have about learning to cook. The "Good Cooking: The New Basics" contains a dozen specially selected video recipes, 125 searchable and printable recipes, ingredient lists, wine pairings, suggested substitutions and complete menus from a Sunday brunch to a romantic dinner for two to a Thanksgiving holiday feast. This DVD offers the unique CookDisc technology. It features recipe substitutions, wine pairings, and enables recipes to be sent via e-mail to a cell phone or PDA. Jill Dupleix is the Times Cook of London and a celebrated author of 13 cook books. Run Time: 120 minutes.

Also available as a set: Good Cooking: The New Basics PLUS CookDisc DVD (The New Basics).

Growing Up Well: Kids Get Cooking — The Egg (DVD) — Child development specialists designed this tape which includes fun and learning within a cooking lesson for children. Demonstrated by kids who advise their young viewers of the safety lessons as well as the recipes. Includes an activity booklet with recipes. Run Time: 30 minutes. Also Available on VHS.

Hamburger America (DVD) — Hamburger America is a documentary film that tells the story of eight deliciously unique hamburger locations across the country and the people behind the burgers. Each restaurant featured in the film has been around for more than forty years, uses only fresh meat, and in many cases can boast the fact that ownership has stayed within the same family. Not only is each establishment family run, but their booths, counters, and stools have seen families come together and grow over the years. The tenets of tradition, family, and pride are what make Hamburger America a truly American tale. Run Time: 54 minutes.

How To Garnish: Step-by Step Instructions (DVD) — How to Garnish is more than just the most useful and informative DVD about food garnishing. It's also the easiest to learn from. No guesswork involved; Chef Harvey shows you everything you need to know. Run Time: 80 minutes.

Interactive Cooking School Cooking Basics (DVD) — Imagine having a professional chef in your own kitchen anytime you need help preparing a recipe or special dish. Now you can with the Interactive Cooking School, Cooking Basics program. The chef instructors from the Culinard Culinary Institute show you how to prepare fresh vegetables, meat, poultry and seafood. From cooking on the stove, in the oven and on the grill Cooking Basics has over 125 video demonstrations to SHOW you how to do it! The program is compatible will almost all Windows based computers and home DVD players. Run Time: 180 minutes.

Interactive Cooking School Essentials of Cooking (DVD) — Essentials of Cooking is an enhanced version of the popular "Cooking Basics" program also by Interactive Cooking School. Essentials of Cooking contains over 130 video demonstrations, 5 cooking guides, printable instructions and unlike previous versions contains all cooking and shopping demonstrations on 2 DVDs so you can use the program on your TV, home computer or both! Included with the program is a waterproof kitchen mousepad with a Food Equivelents Guide. Run Time: 240 minutes.

Joanne Weir's Cooking Class (DVD) — WThis unforgettable, wryly original series of cooking lessons features real-world students working side-by-side with Joanne Weir in her own kitchen in San Francisco. "Joanne Weir’s Cooking Class" invites viewers to share friendly, funny interludes with a perceptive teacher and determined students in a 26-part series of cooking fundamentals. Award-winning author and cooking teacher Joanne Weir is currently starring in her series on Public Television. Includes Printable Recipes and Web resources. Run Time: 780 minutes.

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Vegetarian Cooking with Compassionate Cooks (DVD) — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau and Alka Chandna, the hosts of this engaging, energetic, and informative DVD, demonstrate six tantalizing yet easy-to-make dishes, packing them full of nutritional facts and shopping tips. Including a helpful segment that provides a visual aid to finding vegetarian products in the supermarket, the Compassionate Cooks also answer a number of frequently asked questions regarding vegetarianism.

Featuring a feast for the eyes as well as for the palate, Colleen and Alka emphasize fast and healthful meals, create decadent dairy-free desserts, demystify tofu and other soy products, and present a gorgeous centerpiece that is perfect for the holidays or any special occasion.

Learn to create: Hearty Three Bean Chili, Mouthwatering Chocolate Chip Cookies, Harvest-Stuffed Acorn Squash, Eggless Egg Salad, Magic Chocolate Cake, Vegetable & Tofu Stir-fry with Spicy Peanut Sauce … and more. Run Time: 70 minutes.

It is a very good cookbook and I have yet to find a recipe that didn't turn out as it was supposed to.—Norm Peterson, Arizona
My hubby keeps looking in the cookbook, and asks "when will you cook this recipe?"—Lori Hamby, Florida