Aida Mollenkamp, Food Network star, returns home to Manhattan Beach
Aida Mollenkamp of the Food Network and the Cooking Channel hosts cooking demos at the Manhattan Beach farmers market Tuesday afternoon to promote her new cookbook, Keys to the Kitchen. PHOTO BY ESTHER KANG Food expert and South Bay native Aida Mollenkamp may not be where she is today had it not been for a ski trip injury in Big Bear when she was 15. She tore her ACL, which for six months deterred the busy high school student from her extracurricular activities, such as soccer, tennis, ballet and cheerleading. “So I turned to cooking to keep busy, and it quickly became my prime passion,” Mollenkamp said. More than a decade and a half later, Mollenkamp is now a celebrated food personality on television, having hosted her own Food Network show, Ask Aida, as well as the Cooking Channel’s foodCrafters. And for the first time, she has written her own cookbook Keys to the Kitchen – published Oct. 24 by Chronicle Books – which she describes as “the go-to book for anyone who could use a little more adventure in their cooking.” “Keys to the Kitchen is a modern manual to the kitchen covering everything from how to shop, how to stock your pantry, and basic cooking techniques,” Mollenkamp…
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