COOKING, SHARING, BEING: under the link “LANDER” are several receipes that have been shared on facebook…
This is going to become…I KNOW IT WILL! I will admit I do not know for sure what it will become but I do know that given enough time it will. We all have something to share and I truly believe we all can be philosophers, however if you want to be a philosopher, first study cooking. Then we will talk.
We all have traveled, evolved and meandered quite a bit from wherever we started. Our taste in what we eat has grown from out meanderings and our memories. So this is an attempt to collect both the memories and the growth of individuals that started somewhere. I have a fondness for the authenticity of how a food was, yet I know at some point personal preference trumps everything else.
One thing is clear: when you slide an omelet out of your pan onto a plate, taste it, and realize what a profoundly good thing you’ve made, there is no doubt at all that you have mastered the art, science, and philosophy of interacting with reality. There is no other way to cook.
There are a great many things we can do with knowledge, including printing it on newsprint and wrapping fish in it. However, it does amuse me to realize that, with all the effort poured into research, experimenting, theorizing, teaching and publishing our explanations and theories, when all is said and done, a thing is still what it is, no more and no less for all we might say about it.
Cooking is a marvelous art and craft, which can only be accomplished succesfully by the application of clear thinking, pertinent (if sometimes vague) knowledge, and a great deal of experience and intuition. One thing is clear: each and every one of us eats!
The first thing you need to know is that you don’t need to know what you are doing. You don’t even need other people to think you know what you are doing. The only important thing is having an idea what is possible to accomplish given your available ingredients and resources.
Don’t kill your vegetables. Just because they aren’t still on the plant doesn’t mean they don’t still have some life in them; and there is nothing worse than eating dead food.
Foodlovers Odyssey 