Teaching you the skills you need to cook any recipe better.

I’m here to share knife skills, meal planning hacks, prep tips and organizational insight in the kitchen. Basically, it’s the speed-dating version of culinary school

A graduate of the professional culinary program at Tante Marie Cooking School in San Francisco, Marcia Smart is a cooking instructor, recipe developer and food writer, and creator of Smart in the Kitchen and Smart in the Kitchen School. Through Smart in the Kitchen, Marcia hosts cooking classes, culinary team-building events and cooking retreats. She blogs about meal planning, easy weeknight recipes and healthy family dinners at smartinthekitchen.com and runs an online cooking school at smartinthekitchenschool.com. Her mission is to help home cooks enjoy more family meals without stress, a million dishes or daily trips to the grocery store.

Marcia began her career in the editorial department at Parenting magazine and worked as a producer for Women.com, a food editor for 7x7 magazine in San Francisco, and a contributing editor and restaurant critic at Houston Modern Luxury magazine. Her freelance articles and recipes have appeared in Cooking Light, Parenting, Houston Chronicle, Sunset, Robb Report, Houston Modern Luxury, Houston CityBook, Parenting Travel, BabyTalk, BabyCenter.com and Safeway magazine. Marcia was selected for multiple years as a contributor to Cooking Light’s Annual Recipes cookbooks. You can catch Marcia as a regular cooking guest on HoustonLife, an NBC lifestyle show. She has also appeared on Hallmark Home & Family and Great Day Houston.

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