Courageous Cooking, Kitchen Essentials Makenna Held Courageous Cooking, Kitchen Essentials Makenna Held

Beginner cook or a professional chef? Doesn’t matter. Improve your kitchen experience with this knife

Whether you’ve been binging your favorite culinary extraordinaires in their element, or you’ve just spent a little bit of time in the kitchen, one of the first things of note is that the chef always has a sharp, durable chef knife. But there is more to a quality chef’s knife than meets the eye, and many affordable options fall flat. Until now.

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Courageous Cooking, Kitchen Essentials Makenna Held Courageous Cooking, Kitchen Essentials Makenna Held

Aprons Are An Absolute Savior in the Kitchen (and Beyond). Here's Why You Need One in Your Toolkit.

Ever been in the kitchen, diligently - yet hurriedly - working through a recipe, so you can get to other things on your task list? (Or, perhaps, sit down to a nice meal?) Everything feels like it’s in a rhythm…until you turn around and mis-assess how far away the pot is from you as you lean over to taste the sauce.

And now the sauce is on your soft, beautiful sweater. And you were dressed for the evening’s festivities.

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Courageous Cooking, Food, Visit Makenna Held Courageous Cooking, Food, Visit Makenna Held

Poissonnerie Cap’Ten Encourages a Feeling of Community -- and Access to Top Notch Seafood

Tucked away along the Route de Nice on the edge of the old village of Valbonne is a must-stop for all of our seafood-loving friends. Poissonnerie Cap’Ten - the village poissonnerie or fish shop, as the Americans would call it - was one of the first purveyors Makenna met and bonded with after buying La Peetch and bringing her cooking school concept to the French countryside.

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