Food52’s CEO Erika Ayers Badan is expert at many issues—and we’re not simply saying that as a result of she’s our boss!—however she doesn’t faux to be a whiz within the kitchen. So in our brand-new video collection, Erika Learns, she calls upon her favourite food-focused associates for some useful steering.

Within the very first episode, Erika invitations Emmy-winning discuss present host Tamron Corridor and Emmy- and James Beard-winning chef and culinary producer Lish Steiling to stroll her by a dish from their new cookbook, A Assured Prepare dinner: Recipes for Joyous, No-Strain, Enjoyable within the Kitchen.

“It’s a cookbook, and it’s one we’re happy with, nevertheless it’s additionally a narrative of friendship,” Tamron says within the video. “It’s a narrative [about how] as assured as we seem in our on a regular basis lives, all of us battle with confidence.”

Watch alongside because the trio prepares the e-book’s Rooster Thighs with Dates and Olives recipe, whereas Erika asks the essential questions, like, “What’s a mirepoix?” and cash the time period “party-girl oil.”