Tools

I’ve long preached a less-is-more approach to outfitting a kitchen. You need only five items to cook anything. Of course, your kitchen drawers will fill up with all manner of hardware claiming to make cooking easier and faster (I’m often appalled at my own drawers, but I’m sorry, I’ll never give up my lemon juice press). But all you really need is a sharp knife, a good surface to cut on, a pan to cook in, a heat source, and food. When you have only five things to focus on, you can see that the better each of those items is, the better and easier your cooking will be.