You're the Chef: A Cookbook Companion for A Smart Girl's Guide: Cooking

What's healthy, delicious, and simple? All the recipes in this book! You'll discover easy directions for making meals, planning parties, and preparing snacks, plus beautiful full-color photography for every recipe. This is the perfect companion to A Smart Girl's Guide: Cooking, and a great way to try out newly discovered culinary skills. So get ready to delight the taste buds of your family and friends -- and yourself, too. And prepare to be amazed by how many mouthwatering things you can make! The book also includes an overview of cooking terms and tools, safety rules, and instructions on how to read a recipe.

Lisa Cherkasky is the author of You're the Chef, the cookbook companionfor A Smart Girl's Guide: Cooking. She lives in the Washington, D.C.,area with her funny, opinionated son and their lively, naughty dog.

A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Lisa is not only a chefbut also a popular food writer, food stylist, and culinary educator. The Washington Post, Marriott, Vegetarian Times, MaggieMoo's, the FoodNetwork, Popcorners, Cakemate, Back-to-Nature, McCormick Spice, theSmithsonian, and National Geographic are just a few of her clients, andshe maintains the blog TheLunchCounter.com, where she writes and riffsabout sandwiches.

Lisa is an active member of Les Damesd'Escoffier, the International Association of Culinary Professionals,and the Southern Foodways Alliance, as well as a charter member of theCulinary Historians of Washington.

Elisa Chavarri is an illustrator and artist working from Alpena Michigan where she lives with her brave husband Matt, sweet daughter Lucia, crazy cat Tibbs, and silly dog Pancho. Elisa attended Savannah College of Art and Design where she earned a degree in Animation. She is a native of Lima, Peru. You can visit her at ElisaChavarri.com.