The First Real Kitchen Cookbook: 100 Recipes and Tips for New Cooks

Every year, tens of thousands of hungry twentysomethings graduate college and rent their first apartment. They love food and want to learn how to cook. The First Real Kitchen Cookbook is the just-graduated's go-to guide, explaining in a friendly, encouraging voice everything that can be done on a tiny four-burner stove with minimal equipment and utensils. Fellow twentysomethings Megan Carle and Jill Carle teach new cooks how to stock a pantry on the cheap, buy meat, roast a chicken, cook vegetables, and bake cakes from scratchall the basics and more!

Jill Carle is working as a teaching assistant at Arizona State University while she completes her Ph.D. in political science. Together with their mother Judi, Megan and Jill are co-authors of numerous cookbooks.

Megan Carle recently completed her M.A. in Linguistics and is currently teaching English in a small town in the Austrian Alps.

Sheri Giblin is a San Francisco-based food and lifestyle photographer. Her work for Chronicle Books includes The Winemaker Cooks and Princess Tea.