Keys to the Kitchen: The Essential Reference for Becoming a More Accomplished, Adventurous Cook

· Chronicle Books
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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.

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4.0
21 reviews
JENNIFER GRAZIANO
June 13, 2025
Normal challenges are not to be disturbed; at all touched, or have own domain entered. It's a master and leader of own life. Breathing is mastered by the toddler year because growing out of the word is the only way to bigger ones behind them. Meditating: yoga, walking and talking the same year provide strength for own schedule of busy people. Combining the words science and religion for 'let there be light" are required for psychiatrist's evaluation result of normal - defends own money well - being. To get normal results from the doctors is the only survival. These is not more from them then normal or not.
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Roy Malkin
March 26, 2014
Great book. Every recipe that we have tried is a real winner.
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Leeanne Dickerson
November 13, 2013
The most informative cookbook ever.
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About the author

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.

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