Keys to the Kitchen

Name: Keys to the Kitchen
Author: Aida Mollenkamp, Alex Farnum

Sharpen your skills and build your culinary confidence with this illustrated guide that includes more than three hundred recipes.

Food Network and Cooking Channel star Aida Mollenkamp lays an invaluable foundation for cooks in Keys to the Kitchen. This comprehensive manual collects more than three-hundred innovative, contemporary recipes as well as color photographs, plenty of informative illustrations, a substantial technique primer, and helpful how-to information on subjects as wide-ranging as equipment, food storage, rust removal, throwing a cocktail party, and knife skills.

For those who can’t cook but want to, this essential reference guide makes an ideal starting place—and for those already at ease in the kitchen it’s full of “who knew” moments for expanding their repertoire of great recipes.

Aida Mollenkamp, Alex Farnum

Aida Mollenkamp is California-based food expert, TV host, writer, and culinary curator. She studied at the Cornell Hotel School and Le Cordon Bleu Paris before joining CHOW.com where she worked behind the scenes as Food Editor. Eventually, she moved to television where she hosted her Food Network show Ask Aida and later the Cooking Channel show, foodCrafters. Over the years, she has authored more than 1,000 original recipes and continues to publish new recipes on her site, aidamollenkamp.com. Through her work, she aims to inspire creativity in the meals you craft, the gatherings you design, and the food adventures you embark upon.Alex Farnum is a San Francisco-based food and lifestyle photographer whose previous work for Chronicle Books includes Chicken and Egg and Cake Simple.