He’s officially the perfect man – he’s gorgeous, and he can cook.  Curtis Stone demystifies cooking with a recipe book that offers three stages of difficulty depending on your mood, your ability, and your need to impress…oh, and a front cover to drool over while you’re stirring the sauce.

Curtis is a chef with impeccable credentials and a master at developing recipes for the home cook. In Cooking with Curtis, his mission is to celebrate fresh seasonal ingredients, to stir a passion for using them innovatively, and to demystify the techniques needed for cooking with them.

Featuring an assortment of traditional favourites (lamb, chocolate, rhubarb) and more unusual fare (scallops, vanilla, truffles) – the kind of food that gets chosen from restaurant menus time and again, but that few people know how to prepare at home. The unique 3-step approach offers a simple, a standard and a more challenging recipe for each basic ingredient, so that kitchen confidence is built gradually. Everyone should be able to master the basics – the simple recipes usually feature just 5 ingredients and 4 or 5 steps of preparation. The challenge is to take it further and successfully prepare restaurant-style food in the home kitchen.