Episode 1 - Olive and James First

The Open Kitchen from the Gourmet Ghetto at Kitchen on Fire

Episode One Welcome to the first episode of The Open Kitchen in which Olive and James introduce themselves and the format of the show, and begin to answer questions from students at Kitchen on Fire. They reveal how they each first learned to cook, talk about what a beginning cook should learn first – hint: it’s knife skills – and explain the important concept of mis en place. They also answer how to best store vegetables, and the pros and cons of buying pre-cut fruits and vegetables.