How to Boil an Egg: and 184 Other Simple Recipes for One - Softcover

It tells you how to boil an egg - and how to poach, scramble or fry it; it tells you how to prepare vegetables; it tells you about different meats; it tells you how to get all the elements of a meal ready to eat at the same time.

In fact, it tells you all the things that other cookery books assume you know.

More than that, it takes you from the very basic basics right through to the mysteries of "Sunday Lunch". So, although most of the recipes are designed to feed one, there is scope for entertaining too, as you get more confident about your abilities in the kitchen.

For those cooking on their own for the first time - for whatever reason - it is the cookery adviser at your elbow.

Jan Arkless lives in Oxford, England, with her husband, Bill, and has four grown up children.
Jan is a qualified teacher of Home Economics who taught in Secondary and Special schools before her husband's work took them to live in the Middle East during the Seventies. They lived in Iran (before the Revolution and the overthrow of the Shah), and then in Abu Dhabi, on the other side of the Gulf.
Unable to teach cookery, and her time taken up with travelling backwards and forwards to England with her four children, Jan began writing as a career and pastime which could be indulged in whenever time was available. Her first article, about her elderly Siamese cat, Suki, was published in the magazine section of the Khalij Times, the Gulf English language newspaper. When the family returned to England in 1984, Jan decided that she preferred writing to teaching, and has since written several sucessful Right Way titles on cookery and weddings.