Thanks to popular cooking shows such as the Food Network’s Chopped,™ more and more people are taking cooking classes and are also searching for other ways to perfect their skills as they develop their own style. While there are so many books and DIY videos on the market, there is one particular book that is almost the CliffsNotes of Cooking. In the book, Kitchen On Fire, by Chef Oliver Said and Chef Mike C, there are step-by-step illustrated directions about everything from understanding how to work with knives, perfect your knife skills, ingredient definitions, culinary technique definitions, egg anatomy and basic chemistry, conversion tools, tips and tricks, and so much more!

In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer talks to Chef Mike C. who is an honors graduate from the California Culinary Academy and was the most recent host of the long-running TV series Organic Living with the Hippie Gourmet. Tune in to learn from one of the founders of the Kitchen On Fire! culinary school in Berkeley, California!