Three Books to Help You Get Started Cooking Your Own Food

Cooking doesn't have to feel like this.Alexey Stiop/Shutterstock
For this week's Back to School Guide, I wrote about how cooking your own food is easier than you think. Many of us have been tricked into thinking that cooking is precious, an activity best left to chefs and self-proclaimed (barf) "foodies." I call bullshit on that. Cooking is simply taking an active role in feeding yourself/keeping yourself alive. If you end up taking pleasure in it (and, with time, I suspect you might), even bett