Where Cooking Begins
Uncomplicated Recipes to Make You a Great Cook
By Carla Lalli Music
Clarkson Potter, 2019
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DESCRIPTION
A modern approach to cooking at home, 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 director at Bon Appétit, where she oversees the brand’s food and recipe content across all digital platforms. She writes frequently for the magazine and its websites—bonappetit.com, Basically, and Healthyish—and is a frequent host on the Bon Appétit foodcast. Music also hosts recipe and technique videos on BA’s YouTube channel, where millions of subscribers tune in to see what’s cooking in the test kitchen. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons. Find her on Instagram @lallimusic.
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
"Carla Lalli Music has found a way to impart a failsafe formula for uncomplicated, adaptable, and delicious home cooking—the kind that lets you actually enjoy what you've cooked in the company of your friends and family at the table. No small feat! I've no doubt that Where Cooking Begins will become a dog-eared go-to in my kitchen." —Danny Meyer, CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group; founder, Shake Shack; and author, Setting the Table
"Yes, Carla Lalli Music is Bon Appétit's food director, but she's also a working mother who understands the real-life demands of shopping and cooking for a family. Thanks to both of those roles, she serves up recipes you not only want to make but can make." —Adam Rapoport, editor in chief, Bon Appétit
"Carla's strikingly easygoing approach to cooking techniques in Where Cooking Begins allows every type of cook to learn something new. It's a must-have." —Ignacio Mattos, coauthor, Estela
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