Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen: Learning to Cook with 65 Great Chefs and Over 100 Delicious Recipes
By Dana Cowin
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An uproarious, inspiring cookbook from the longtime editor-in-chief of Food & Wine magazine, in which the first lady of food spills the secret of her culinary ineptitude, while learning—finally—to cook, side-by-side with some of the greatest chefs working today, from David Chang to Alice Waters to Thomas Keller.
For years, Dana Cowin kept a dark secret: From meat to veggies, broiling to baking, breakfast to dinner, she ruined literally every kind of dish she attempted. Now, in this cookbook confessional, the vaunted “first lady of food” finally comes clean about her many meal mishaps. With the help of friends—all-star chefs, including April Bloomfield, Alex Guarnaschelli, and Tom Colicchio, among many others—Cowin takes on 100 recipes dear to her heart. Ideal dishes for the home cook, each recipe has a high “yum” factor, a few key ingredients, and a simple trick that makes them special. With every dish, she attains a critical new skill, learning invaluable lessons along the way from the hero chefs who help her discover exactly where she goes wrong.
Hilarious and heartwarming, encouraging and instructional, Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen showcases Cowin’s plentiful cooking mistakes, inspiring anyone who loves a good meal but fears its preparation. Featuring gorgeous full color photography, it is an intimate, hands-on cooking guide from a fellow foodie and amateur home chef, designed to help even the biggest kitchen phobics overcome their reluctance, with delicious results.
Dana Cowin
Dana Cowin, Food & Wine’s editor-in-chief since 1995, has been covering the world of food, wine, style, and design for more than thirty years. She sits on the board of directors of City Harvest, a New York City hunger-relief organization; Wholesome Wave, dedicated to providing access to sustainable foods; and Hot Bread Kitchen, an organization that helps train low-income men and women to join the culinary workforce. In 2012, she was an inductee into the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America. She is an alumna of Brown University and lives in New York City with her husband and two children. To read more about Dana’s adventures, follow her at @fwscout on Twitter and Instagram.
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Reviews for Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Simply fantastic and quite entertaining. Cowin, the editor-in-chief of Food & Wine Magazine, outs herself as "Irma", a hapless cook whose tales of disasters and pleas for help regularly appeared in the magazine. I would've bought this book for the anecdotes alone, because they're utterly hilarious (I can still imagine her running away from the poor lobster trying to claw its way out of the pot of boiling water she just dropped it into). But instead of doing a memoir, she has incorporated these stories into a book of over 100 recipes that she has managed to learn with assistance from an all-star roster of chefs. The recipes themselves look tasty and are described very clearly, and the chefs have provided explanations of techniques, suggested variations, and lots of other advice. Above all, this gives me hope that I too can learn my way around a kitchen if I can just keep at it and get the right help!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Simply fantastic and quite entertaining. Cowin, the editor-in-chief of Food & Wine Magazine, outs herself as "Irma", a hapless cook whose tales of disasters and pleas for help regularly appeared in the magazine. I would've bought this book for the anecdotes alone, because they're utterly hilarious (I can still imagine her running away from the poor lobster trying to claw its way out of the pot of boiling water she just dropped it into). But instead of doing a memoir, she has incorporated these stories into a book of over 100 recipes that she has managed to learn with assistance from an all-star roster of chefs. The recipes themselves look tasty and are described very clearly, and the chefs have provided explanations of techniques, suggested variations, and lots of other advice. Above all, this gives me hope that I too can learn my way around a kitchen if I can just keep at it and get the right help!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5cookbook. Very approachable and good advice for anyone who's ever had a recipe attempt not turn out as well as they'd hoped. I bookmarked several of the poultry, meat, and veggie dishes to try (immediately!) and in general found the content to be very useful as various techniques are explained and demonstrated through the recipes.