The 5 Benefits Of Simple Cooking

The 5 Benefits Of Simple Cooking

Simple cooking is the best cooking. There, I said it for the 1000th time! No matter where I travel, no matter with whom I speak, the people that know good food say the same thing. “Simple things are good things” In a fish market on Hawaii, the local fish monger...
In The Kitchen Size DOESN’T Matter

In The Kitchen Size DOESN’T Matter

People are always waiving knives at me!  For years, people came to my cooking school brandishing blades, gesturing wildly, and imploring me, “Is this a good knife?” A “good knife” has little to do with the size of the blade, the color of the...
The Recipe That Will Ruin Your Cooking

The Recipe That Will Ruin Your Cooking

There’s a recipe out there that will ruin your ability to cook. It’s lurking in one of those many, many, many recipe books you’ve been collecting. It’s not camouflaged, it’s there in black and white with a nice color picture but you may...
The Creamiest Cheese Sauce Starts With Bechamel

The Creamiest Cheese Sauce Starts With Bechamel

I’m asked a LOT of cooking questions, many of them about failed cheese sauce. Every day I’m reminded of the confusion that abounds about cooking when I open my email, chat with my WebCookingClasses members, go to my Facebook page, or contribute to a forum....