Kate Payne, The Hip Girl's Guide to the Kitchen

You can become a confident cook--even if the drawer with the take-out menus is the only part of your kitchen you currently use Kate Payne shows you how to master basic cooking techniques--boiling, baking, and sauteing--and simplifies the process of fancy ones, like jamming and preserving, dehydrating, braising, roasting, infusing, and pickling. With this straightforward and fun guide, you can stock up your kitchen with the ingredients, tools, and appliances you'll actually use. You'll also learn how to decode recipes and alter them to make them gluten-free, dairy-free, or vegan.

Kate Payne blogs at The Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking.

This event will take place at Star Market Porter Square, two doors down from the bookstore.