WHERE COOKING BEGINS

A gateway cookbook for novices and anyone who wants to be a better home cook, WHERE COOKING BEGINS gives readers a modern approach to shopping, simple cooking methods, and more than 70 innately flexible recipes.

The indispensable recipes and simple cooking methods in WHERE COOKING BEGINS are an open invitation to dive into Carla Lalli Music's intuitive, laid-back cooking style. Carla starts at the beginning by encouraging readers to rethink how they shop for food: instead of tedious trips to the supermarket, Carla calls upon busy cooks to use grocery delivery services for staples and general ingredients thus freeing up time to do the "fun" shopping at farmer's markets. This strategy is carried through to the recipes with ingredients marked as either "market" or "buy from home". By making shopping an enjoyable experience, home cooks will look forward to their weekly shopping list instead of dreading it.

Recipes like Salted Cucumbers with Ginger, Chicken Cutlets with Spicy Coconut Dressing, and Any-Fruit Galette are designed to give readers the ability to make perfect dishes with dead-simple seasonings and endless ingredient swaps, and her food shopping strategy will teach readers how to find inspiration at the market. She also includes clear instructions for 6 foundational cooking techniques with beautiful step-by-step photography by Gentle and Hyers.

Designed for busy lives, WHERE COOKING BEGINS empowers anyone to be a better cook with intuitive solutions for pulling together easy, but sophisticated meals.

CARLA LALLI MUSIC is the food director at Bon Appétit, where she oversees the brand's entire food and recipe content and writes frequently for the magazine and its digital platforms - bonappetit.com, Healthyish, and Basicially. A frequent host on the Bon Appétit podcast, she appears frequently in recipe and technique videos on Bon Appétit's YouTube channel, where nearly 2 million subscribers tune in to see what's happening in the test kitchen.