This is NPR's Life Kit.

I'm Aisha Roscoe.

It's a every recipe in this book you've made in this kitchen.

It's a very nice kitchen.

Wim Brooklyn is how do you describe it?

I'm not good at describing stuff.

Messy.

I recently visited Melissa Clark, cookbook author

and food writer for The New York Times.

And her really not very messy at all,

very beautiful kitchen in Brooklyn.

This kitchen is where all the magic happens.

It's where Melissa Clark created, tested,

and tested again every recipe

and her new cookbook dinner in one,

which has 100 recipes that you can cook in one pot,

one pan, one slow cooker, very easy peasy.

To me, they're my go-to weeknight thing.

Like if I cannot dirty an extra pot,

I'm gonna cook it in a one pot.

So these are things I've been kind of riffing on for years.

And then when I did the cookbook,

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