My Cooking Essentials

Don't call it a gift guide.

Don’t call it a gift guide. I mean it! This is a short list of the items I use on either a daily or near-daily basis in the kitchen. It’s not even an endorsement of the precise brand I’m using—it’s about the items themselves. And while I’m known to enjoy a nice Williams-Sonoma binge shop, I prefer nearly every cooking tool I’ve gotten at a professional …