When asked if she listens to music while cooking, Chef Rashaunda Grant laughed. It’s not music that keeps things bubbling in her kitchen.
“I listen to audiobooks, mostly romances,” she said.
Although silence is also useful in the kitchen—where the sounds of sizzling pans and burbling pots are important, along with sampling and smelling foods as they cook—Rashaunda still prefers a good story to set the mood…