James Beard Award-winning and self-made chef Naomi Pomeroy's debut cookbook featuring nearly 140 lesson-driven recipes designed to improve the home cook's understanding of professional techniques and flavor combinations in order to produce simple but show-stopping meals.Naomi Pomeroy knows that the best recipes are the ones that make you a better cook. A twenty-year veteran chef with four restaurants to her name she learned her trade not in fancy culinary schools but by reading cookbooks. From M