In this follow-up to her spectacular bestselling debut Cook Like a Rock Star, Food Network chef and host Anne Burrell shows you not just how to keep rocking in the kitchen, but how to cook like you own it with 100 recipes to get you comfortable with dozens of essential techniques.

Taking control in the kitchen means mastering flavors and constantly keeping an eye on what Anne calls "QC" (quality control). It starts with learning the power of great ingredients (how quality olive oil and salt can transform an everyday dish), understanding the tools in your kitchen, and getting your mise en place ready before diving into a recipe. Anne shows you how to apply these skills to a slew of delicious, high-brow/low-stress recipes that get you out of a cooking rut, so you can keep surprising yourself in the kitchen. POC (piece of cake)!

Try out your new skills with classic bistro fare, such as Grilled Hanger Steak, Fish and Chips, or simple dishes, like Mushroom Soup with Bacon, and Shrimp in Garlic Oil and Chiles. Master roasting with a Hawaiian pork dish, have fun with spices making chicken roti, for a casual bite there’s her Sicilian Tuna, Caponata, Provolone & Arugula Panino. Each dish—whether firsts, seconds, sides, brunch, sandwiches or desserts—is accessible yet teaches a range of techniques and embraces tantalizing flavors. And they all share Anne’s secrets to great home cooking.

Here is Anne at her most personal—complete with her enthusiastic, sassy approach to how to get the most out of ingredients and whip up irresistibly delicious dishes that she likes to cook at home. So cook these recipes, master them, and then you will OWN YOUR KITCHEN! "Anne Burrell continues to be the voice of a modern cooking teacher. She leaves us fearless to take risks in the kitchen and tackle an array of different ingredients--with the techniques of a professional chef and the excitement of a home cook.  It's one thing to know Anne Burrell's unique voice and enthusiasm for food from her first book, Cook Like a Rock Star. It's a whole other thing when her second book, Own Your Kitchen, about tasty empowerment, delivers more of the same and then some! I love that she celebrates under-loved ingredients like squid with such passion. Brined potato chips? Yes, please. Such a great idea. I love that Anne's Italian sensibility mixes so well with her love of American ingredients. As I read the book, I hear her voice and words of encouragement throughout!"
--Alex Guarnaschelli