You may like Cooking for Geeks, by Jeff Potter.I've read the original book and loved it. It includes the how and the why for classic and modern cuisine, each re

You may like Cooking for Geeks, by Jeff Potter.I've read the original book and loved it. It includes the how and the why for classic and modern cuisine, each recipe has well measured ingredients (imperial AND metric) and also suggestions like "you could also try adding x, or replacing y, or doing z technique at the beginning". There's a second edition with some more techniques added.