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A modern approach to mastering the art of cooking at home from the food editor at large at Bon AppÊtit, with more than 70 innately flexible recipes.Â
The indispensable recipes and streamlined cooking techniques in Where Cooking Begins are an open invitation to dive into Carla Lalli Musicâs laid-back cooking style. The food editor at large at Bon AppÊtit, her intuitive recipes are inspired by the meals she makes at home for her family and friends and the joy she takes in feeding them. Here, too, is her guide to the six essential cooking methods that will show you how to make everything without over-complicating anythingâand every recipe includes suggestions for swaps and substitutions, so youâll never feel stuck or stymied.
Where Cooking Begins is also the first recent cookbook to connect the way we shop to the way we cook. Musicâs modern approachâpick up your fresh ingredients a few times a week, and fill your pantry with staples bought onlineâwill make you want to click on a burner and slide out a cutting board the minute you get home.
The no-fail techniques, textured recipes, and strategies in Where Cooking Begins will make you a great cook.
Praise for Where Cooking Begins
âAn ideal tool kit to transform a timid cook into an adventurous and confident improviser.ââHelen Rosner, The New Yorker
â[Carla Lalli Music] is like everyoneâs favorite aunt, the one who shows up and makes surprising things happen. Her superpower is that she believes in you as a cook. . . . Where Cooking Begins is her 250-page argument that you should believe in yourself, too.ââJulia Moskin, The New York Times
âCarla Lalli Music knows how to help with ingredients, strategy and technique, but most important of all, she understands how to help you become confident as a cook.ââNigella Lawson
âA gorgeous new cookbook from Bon AppÊtitâs former food director Carla Lalli Music, Where Cooking Begins presents a beautiful guide to truly modern cooking. Laid back and built to share, these simple but sophisticated recipes are the kind you accidentally memorize and learn to live by.ââThe Chalkboard
âIf you loved Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, this is the next book for you.ââPureWow