The chapter discusses the importance of confidence and knowing the basics of food preparation when cooking simple dishes. It shares a story of seeking self-confidence in the kitchen and suggests the third date as the safest time to cook a meal for someone. The chapter also provides tips on choosing ingredients and emphasizes the French process of confit for cooking chicken.
Jonny is a 26 year-old bachelor whose cooking often leads to heartache (and for one ex-girlfriend, a stomach ache). Jonny admits he’s a klutz in the kitchen, so we hooked him up with Sam Sifton, cookbook raconteur and head of the New York Times’s Cooking section. In this episode of How To! we see if we can teach our love-lorn Millennial to cook one perfect meal. Is romantic bliss just a well-browned chicken thigh away? (Recipe included!)
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