Where Cooking Begins: Uncomplicated Recipes to Make You a Great Cook

This is a wonderful cookbook and now one of my favourites. I love that Carla focused on the processes and techniques for home cooks, starting with grocery shopping and talking about organisation, stocking pantries, seasonality and making swaps and substitutions to your taste and availability of ingredients. It will encourage and build the confidence of any level of home cook. There's great take away lessons/applicability to fit a range of lifestyles/cooking patterns and starting with the basics of ingredients, cooking techniques and flavours is indispensable.Carla has a great writing voice, I find it authentic, witty, funny and inviting. Not only does it feel like she's there with me in the kitchen, but through her cooking philosophies and approach, it's revitalised my joy for shopping for ingredients, meal inspiration, cooking and eating of course. I'm slightly upset she hasn't written a Harry Potter-length series of cooking novels, because of how great it would be in her voice.It's clear how her extensive experience, skills and knowledge from so many different areas of the food and food media industry have coalesced into this book. Much respect to Carla, and I eagerly anticipate her 2nd and as many more books as she decides to write after that! :)

I love this book. Carla's down to earth, funny, and has written a truly great cook book. I love that the recipes have suggested swaps you can use, it gives a home cook the confidence to experiment.

Love the book lots of good ideas and tasty meals.

It reads in Carla’s voice. It’s witty, informative and engaging. The photography is stunning and the recipes are inspiring. 3 cheers.

I love cookbooks and I love bon appetite, I was very excited about this book, but it fell flat for me. I found the flow really weird and the mix of recipes unappealing. I've have tried a few recipes in this book, and nothing was bad, in fact the pasta e fagioli is really, really good. However, with cookbooks I have to love them to use them, and this one doesn't have me reaching for it at all.