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# Welcome to The Kitchen Table

Pull up a chair. There is always something on the stove.

This is a blog about cooking — real cooking, in a real kitchen, with the kind of attention and care that makes meals memorable. I am Amelia Fontaine, and I have been cooking since I was tall enough to stand on a step stool beside my grandmother's range in Turin. Everything I know about food comes from people who cooked before me: my grandmother Lucia, who rolled pasta every Sunday morning without looking at a recipe; my father, who trained as a chef in Lyon and taught me that French technique is mostly about paying attention; and the long tradition of cooks who figured out, through taste and repetition and curiosity, how things work.

I started writing this blog because I wanted a place to share what I have learned — not just the recipes, but the reasoning behind them. Understanding *why* you roast bones before making stock, why you rest meat before slicing it, why you add pasta water to the sauce — that understanding changes how you cook. It makes you more confident, more adaptable, and more able to fix things when they go wrong.

## What You Will Find Here

**Recipes** — complete, tested recipes with actual measurements, actual steps, and actual explanations of what to look for at each stage. I do not round up to the nearest "a handful" and I do not omit the part where things can go wrong.

**Technique** — posts focused on a specific technique rather than a specific dish. How to roast, how to braise, how to make stock, how to achieve an emulsion. These are the foundation skills that make every recipe easier.

**Stories** — food without context is just fuel. I write about my grandmother's kitchen, about markets in Lyon in early spring, about the first time I got a hollandaise right. The stories are as much a part of cooking as the recipes.

**Kitchen Science** — I am fascinated by why things work. The Maillard reaction, the role of fat in emulsification, what happens to proteins when you cook them. Where the science helps explain the technique, I include it.

## Recent Posts

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## A Note on Ingredients

I use European-style butter, good olive oil, and fresh ingredients as much as possible. I give metric measurements first with approximate imperial equivalents. Most things in cooking are forgiving; I will tell you when they are not.

Welcome to the table. I hope you find something here that you want to cook tonight.

— Amelia
