Cooking without a Parachute: No Recipe, No Fear

ISBN: 1478390123

Author: Conley, Candace

Condition: Used

About the Author Chef Candace Conley comes from a long line of talented home cooks and has developed her self-taught culinary style over the past 30 years. She created The Girl Can Cook!, a personal culinary service, as a personal chef.  She now owns and operates The Girl Can Cook!  Cooking Studio and Kitchen specializing in recreational cooking classes and intimate catered events. Chef Candace appears regularly on The List Tulsa Edition.  She has also appeared on Explore Tulsa and on the FOX, ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates.  And, now Cooking without a Parachute is not only a collection of her favorite recipes but has become an online cooking course that is available through Chef Candace's website.  Her food, and cooking style, have been featured in the Tulsa World and, as a personal chef, she was profiled in the Tulsa Business Journal. She has been a featured contributor to Men's Fitness magazine where her "Table for Four: Guy Friendly Dinner Party" appeared; she was also the spotlighted chef in the American Personal and Private Chef's Association's e-zine, a la minute. Chef Candace entered and won the 2009 Cooking Light Sponsor Supported Ultimate Reader Recipe Contest and that recipe was featured in the Tulsa World's "Year's Best Recipes for 2009". Product Description Cook without worry or intimidation! Cooking without a Parachute began as a cooking class for teenagers graduating from high school with my older daughter. She was interested in learning some basic cooking skills and thought her friends would enjoy that too. We had a class with eight kids headed to college and called it Cooking without a Parachute: No recipe, no fear. They learned basic knife skills, how to turn on a stovetop burner and how to sauté chicken in a pan. I taught that class and others while I was a personal chef. I had numerous requests for catering which I could not do in Tulsa without a certified professional kitchen. And, there is really no place where you can go to cook on a regular basis. So Urban Kitchen was born. People from all walks of life and cooking skills come to the kitchen to learn everything from basic knife skills to risotto making to butchering a chicken. And, most importantly, they have a great time doing it. These recipes represent the first two years of Urban Kitchen and a few come from those years before. They are favorite, often requested, recipes from those classes. As I tell everyone who cooks at Urban Kitchenrecipes are merely a guide. Take them and make them your own.