From making careless mistakes from a lack of formal training to being limited to ingredients with supermarket-level quality, most readers are already at a disadvantage. With his signature dry wit and years of experience cooking for everyone from high-end restaurant patrons to his hungry family, Cal Peternell is here to level the playing field with this bag of tricks for turning standard (or substandard) fare into a meal to be proud of, troubleshooting such situations as: Making the best of burned food, hacking packaged food, things restaurants often do wrong and you can do better, spicing up lackluster vegetables, snazzing up dishes with “special sauces for the boring”. Up your cooking game every night by learning how to bounce back from (almost) any mistake with Bad Food Good.