DESCRIPTION

A modern approach to mastering the art of cooking at home from the food director at Bon Appetit, with more than 70 innately flexible recipes.
The indispensable recipes and streamlined cooking techniques in Where Cooking Begins are an open invitation to dive into Carla Lalli Music's laid-back cooking style. The food director at Bon Appetit, 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 anything--and every recipe includes suggestions for swaps and substitutions, so you'll 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. Music's modern approach--pick up your fresh ingredients a few times a week, and fill your pantry with staples bought online--will 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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Carla Lalli Music is the food editor at large at Bon Appétit, where she oversaw the brand's food and recipe content across all digital platforms. She writes frequently for the magazine and its websites--Bon Appétit online, Basically, and Healthyish--and was a frequent host on the Bon Appétit podcast and YouTube channel, where millions of subscribers tune in. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.

REVIEWS

"Where Cooking Begins is like having an amazing cook for a best friend who lets you follow her around the kitchen all day. Carla is that friend. She speaks to you in simple terms, she shows you techniques that apply to not just one recipe but several--all delicious. She shows you how to walk right up to your fridge without fear and make a meal to impress family and friends. Her book is perfect for the novice, but you would also find it on the 'favorites' shelf of any accomplished home cook. Upon my first read, I started cooking immediately." --Jenni Konner, writer, producer, director, Girls and Camping

"This book is the next best thing to getting to hang out and cook with Carla. I've been a fan forever and have been waiting for this book." --Andrew Tarlow, coauthor, Dinner at the Long Table

"An ideal tool kit to transform a timid cook into an adventurous and confident improviser."--Helen Rosner, The New Yorker

"Carla Lalli Music] is like everyone's 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."--Julia Moskin, The New York Times

"Carla 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."--Nigella Lawson