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.