Sohla El-Waylly Went To Culinary School To “Prove Everyone Wrong”
Oct 30, 2023
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Sohla El-Waylly, chef and YouTube star, discusses her new cookbook as an antidote to culinary school, her love for cooking shows like Top Chef, and her struggles and heartwarming moments in culinary school and high-pressure restaurants.
Sohla El-Waylly believes that culinary school is a scam and has written a cookbook, Start Here, as an antidote to help home cooks learn in their own kitchens.
Sohla El-Waylly's debut cookbook, Start Here, offers a comprehensive culinary education, focusing on technique and empowering readers to become better cooks.
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Sohla El-Waylly — chef, recipe developer, YouTube star — just released her first cookbook, Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook. She sees the book as an antidote to the pitfalls of culinary school (which she calls “a scam”), and she wrote it to help home cooks learn in their own kitchens. Sohla tells Dan why she always knew that she wanted to cook for a living, how she fell in love with her husband over a pile of butchered chickens, and why she still makes sprinkles individually, by hand.
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