Your Starter Kitchen

“Your Starter Kitchen is an essential primer on ‘adulting.’ Anyone who wants to take a step away from DoorDash and actually make the enticing food photos on Instagram absolutely needs this book. It’s an accessible guide on how-to equip and stock a new kitchen and includes a tight package of basic recipes to cook in it. Whether you are an absolute novice or a more seasoned cook, this book will help you stock, stack, and store what you need in your kitchen to sit down and sup.” -Virginia Willis, James Beard Award-Winning Cookbook Author and Chef “Finally someone has filled in the huge gap in most beginner cookbooks. Basic recipes are essential, of course, but a lot remains mysterious. Which pans should you use, and which knives? Which spices should you have on hand? Lisa Chernick has come to the rescue. Not only does she lay out the basic equipment and pantry ingredients, she also spells out how to upgrade your first apartment…and your second one, too. And right along she provides her unique and easy versions of essential recipes. Thank you, Lisa!” -Sara Moulton, author of Sara Moulton’s Home Cooking 101: How to Make Everything Taste Better “Lisa Chernick has written a timeless, user-friendly guide to the ins and outs of setting up a kitchen and starting to cook in it. Your Starter Kitchen gives beginners the gear, pantry staples, and cooking techniques they need to make first kitchens feel like home. Then it tells how to turn bigger kitchens into the warm heart of a home. Fifteen simple, foolproof recipes bring all the guidance and ideas to life. Your Starter Kitchen should be on every ‘must-have’ list for new grads, college kids, and anyone in a new home-and included in wedding registries and shower gifts!” -Grace Young, author of Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge

Lisa Chernick is a native of Buffalo, New York, who fell for food and cooking while living in Italy. She studied at universities in both Rome and Siena, graduated from Boston University, and attended culinary school at NYC’s Institute of Culinary Education. Lisa has been a food writer and editor for more than twenty years; from Food Arts magazine, to the early days of Epicurious, and most recently at Weight Watchers’s website, magazine, and cookbooks. She has been a James Beard Book Awards judge for the past twelve years and a James Beard Award nominee herself for digital writing and editing. An avid home cook, Lisa shares her Hoboken, New Jersey, home with her husband, two fabulous teenage daughters, and an exceptional mini poodle.

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