You may be the best homestead cook in the world, but why can’t you prepare food that tastes like restaurant food?

If you like cooking at home as much as you enjoy eating out then you may wonder why the food you make in your kitchen never tastes quite like the stuff you ate in the restaurant, even when you follow the recipes from the restaurant’s own cookbook.

There are several reasons for this. The first is that chefs lie. Most restaurant cookbooks will leave out one or two secret ingredients or will short-circuit the cooking process in the name of simplicity but in reality, to guarantee that you can never reproduce the dish perfectly at home.