Chef Lauren Costello, Author of "Notes on Cooking"

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Chef, food stylist, author and instructor, Lauren Costello, shares some of her French Culinary Institute-trained well-earned tips from her books, "Notes on Cooking" and "The Competent Cook." One tip: just say yes to everything! She reveals some food styling secrets, how to make breakfast kids will eat, and the importance of putting a little love into every dish.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, the podcast that features conversations with writers of all types.
0:17.5	Today's episode of Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books has been sponsored by Bobbo Botanicals, B-A-B-O-Banicals.
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0:42.3	I'm here today with my great old friend Lauren, Ron Costello. Lauren is a chef, author, instructor, and former food stylist for The View and the Early Show.
0:49.3	A graduate of Colgate University and the French Culinary Institute, Lauren started and ran her own catering
0:54.6	firm, Gotham caterers, while getting into the food styling world. She has since written two books
0:59.2	about cooking. The first is Notes on Cooking, a Short Guide to an Essential Craft, and the Second
1:04.5	is the Competent Cook, Essential Tools, Techniques, and Recipes for the Modern At-Home Cook.
1:09.0	Plus, she co-authored a children's book, which my kids love, entitled Eat Your Breakfast or Else. Lauren hosted 45 episodes, a lot of episodes
1:17.6	of an AOL cooking series in 2010 called Pantry Challenge and has regularly appeared on TV to showcase
1:24.2	various recipes. She currently lives in Connecticut with her husband and two sons.
1:28.3	So welcome, Lauren.
1:29.3	Thank you, Zibi.
1:30.3	So I want to talk about your wonderful books, but first I want to hear a little more about
1:34.3	your food styling career because that's just so completely unique and cool.
1:38.3	So how did you get into food styling? And what exactly does food styling even mean?
1:42.3	Those are both great questions. What food styling means is I liken food styling even mean that's a good those are both great questions uh
1:44.7	what food styling means is i liken it since you're a writer to ghost writing it's like being a ghost
1:50.3	writer so if you see um tyler florence on a morning show uh doing a five-minute segment making
1:57.4	steak and salad and barbecue that's been three days of work. And somebody has done that,
2:03.7	and it hasn't been Tyler, because he's busy and he has to do other things. So someone else like
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