bbGo back to the basics in the kitchen and rediscover the joy of cooking with simple tools and fresh local and seasonal ingredients. A complete guide to the essentials of home cooking from the popular cooking school at Maine's Salt Water Farm.bb pGood cooking has nothing to do with fancy equipment, complicated recipes, or trendy, hard-to-find ingredients. The fundamentals are really quite simple it's about instinct, technique, and freshness. Annemarie Ahearn, dubbed by iFood Wine Magazinei as someone changing the way America eats, believes that developing these essential skills can lead to a greater sense of confidence and fulfillment in the kitchen. Her credo 1 Grow at least some of your own food to establish a deeper connection with the earth that provides your nutrition, 2 Be familiar with a range of cooking techniques so you can develop flexibility and intuition in the kitchen, and 3 Master the age-old cooking skills that will serve you your whole lifetime--cooking in cast iron, s