Chef Laurie Erickson has made her engaging culinary demonstration skills portable, adaptable and thoroughly enjoyable with her new cookbook, Chef By Step®, The World's Easiest Cookbook.

In collaboration with professional illustrator Jake Morrill, Chef By Step® takes beginning cooks of any age through a collection of 20 wonderfully simple and sensational recipes.

True to it's title, each recipe in this one-of-a-kind cookbook is lavishly visual, depicting every ingredient and utensil needed through detailed illustrations, while demonstration each cooking step with color photographs from start to finish.

Featured in the cookbook are simple, basic and nutritious meals geared to those ages 10 and up along with insightful tips and tricks that even the experienced chef will find helpful. Each recipe is economical, with no fancy ingredients and minimal clean-up. Chef By Step is an ideal gift for anyone wanting to learn how to cook with an ease of preparation that boosts the confidence of those who were once afraid to step into the kitchen.

Chef Laurie is now working on the next cookbook in this series: Chef By Step® for the Bachelors.