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. Her recipes 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. Designed for busy lives and to make anyone a better cook, Where Cooking Begins empowers readers with intuitive solutions for pulling together easy, but sophisticated meals.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. Her recipes 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. Designed for busy lives and to make anyone a better cook, Where Cooking Begins empowers readers with intuitive solutions for pulling together easy, but sophisticated meals. CARLA LALLI MUSIC is the food director at Bon Appetit, 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 Appetit podcast, she appears frequently in recipe and technique videos on Bon Appetit's YouTube channel, where nearly 2 million subscribers tune in to see what's happening in the test kitchen. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons. Find her on Instagram @lallimusic.