Street food has redefined the landscape of American restaurants, and Skillet Street Food is considered to be one of the top gourmet food trucks in the nation. Armed with a shiny Airstream and gourmet bistro fare, this cookbook gives recipes and guidance for running a food truck.

The hardest-working pan in the kitchen gets its moment to shine. ATK pushes the limit what you can make in a skillet with 200+ recipes and inventive techniques that will forever change how you sear steak, roast chicken, simmer pasta, even scramble eggs. Once you start cooking from this book you will look at your skillets with fresh eyes. A skillet can be a baking dish, a roasting pan, a saucepan, a pasta pot, a griddle, and more. With this collection of one-pan dishes you have a roadmap for cooking perfect meals, breads, even dessert. Up Your Skillet IQ: Whether you’re a nonstick superfan, a cast iron devotee, or exploring carbon steel, you’ll learn the science behind each type so you can choose the best skillets (and sizes) for your cooking style and learn how to swap one for another. Streamlined Recipes Meet Superior Results: In just one pan, make Cheesy Stuffed Shells, Spanakopita, Tomato Cobbler, Herbed Roast Pork Loin with Asparagus, Chicken Under a Brick with Herb-Roasted Potatoes, French Toast Casserole, Sticky Buns, and Brownies. Beautiful Technique Spreads Hammer Home Key Strategies: These visual spreads bring to life core techniques like why you should start food in a cold pan with no oil when searing (sometimes), how to poach fish perfectly in a skillet, the keys to successful pan-roasting, and more. For-Two Variations Throughout: Cooking for a smaller household? Dozens of variations help you scale down recipes one you’ve mastered the technique. With recipes using just one pan, this is the book to reach for on nights when less cleanup is a plus and fast recipes are ideal.

“[A] juicy memoir about growing up, becoming a chef, and working as New York’s most unconventional wedding caterer.” —BUST magazine When their high-school-aged, punk, runaway daughter is found hosting a Jersey Shore hotel party, Rossi’s parents feel they have no other choice: they ship her off to live with a Chasidic rabbi in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Within the confines of this restrictive culture, Rossi’s big city dreams take root. Once she makes her way to Manhattan, Rossi’s passion for cooking, which first began as a revolt against the microwave, becomes her life mission. The Raging Skillet is one woman’s story of cooking her way through some of the most unlikely kitchens in New York City—at a “beach” in Tribeca, an East Village supper club, and a makeshift grill at Ground Zero in the days immediately following 9/11. Forever writing her own rules, Rossi ends up becoming the owner of one of the most sought-after catering companies in the city. This heartfelt, gritty, and hilarious memoir shows us how the creativity of the kitchen allows us to give a nod to where we come from, while simultaneously expressing everything that we are. This “moving, witty memoir” (Nigella Lawson) includes unpretentious recipes for real people everywhere. “A humorous and witty chronicle of a woman’s pulling-herself-up-by-her-bootstraps rise through the culinary ranks.” —Kirkus Reviews

From juicy roasted chicken and easy stove-top pizza to elegant steamed halibut and perfect steak au poivre, here are 22 delicious recipes that demonstrate how simple it is to create satisfying, flavorful meals using a skillet. These are sure to become classics in your kitchen.

Paul and Angela Knipple's culinary tour of the contemporary American South celebrates the flourishing of global food traditions "down home." Drawing on the authors' firsthand interviews and reportage from Richmond to Mobile and enriched by a cornucopia of photographs and original recipes, the book presents engaging, poignant profiles of a host of first-generation immigrants from all over the world who are cooking their way through life as professional chefs, food entrepreneurs and restaurateurs, and home cooks. Beginning the tour with an appreciation of the South's foundational food traditions--including Native American, Creole, African American, and Cajun--the Knipples tell the fascinating stories of more than forty immigrants who now call the South home. Not only do their stories trace the continuing evolution of southern foodways, they also show how food is central to the immigrant experience. For these skillful, hardworking immigrants, food provides the means for both connecting with the American dream and maintaining cherished ethnic traditions. Try Father Vien's Vietnamese-style pickled mustard greens, Don Felix's pork ribs, Elizabeth Kizito's Ugandan-style plantains in peanut sauce, or Uli Bennevitz's creamy beer soup and taste the world without stepping north of the Mason-Dixon line.

Everyone’s kitchen includes a skillet–possibly several. These handy companions stay within reach for cooking eggs, hash browns, and the occasional chicken breast. But this essential piece of kitchen equipment can do so much more. The 150 recipes in this collection demonstrate the skillet’s versatility in creating main dishes, side dishes, and mouthwatering desserts–all in the same seemingly humble pan.

Two cutting-edge gourmets revamp delicious, old-fashioned cooking using irresistible, modern recipes. The Cast-Iron Skillet Cookbook features simple recipes designed for cast-iron cooking, including savory appetizers, rustic breads, and desserts. Color photos.