The State Of Cooking

Real food, Real Cooking, No drama

Todays cooking on TV and the web sounds something like this….
To win our supercharged cooking contest full of celebrity guests and pre-written scripts, you have to cook a meal using a specific ingredient. This time the secret ingredient is …. Crushed glass! You have 30 minutes to create a complete meal and make sure you make the crushed glass the star of the meal. Oh, and just to make it more interesting you have to cook it all using nothing but a rubber hose for utensils.
Silly? Yes, it is but that is the state of cooking today. Celebrity chefs with paid celebrity guests, written scripts where even the “accidents” are written in advance, crazy ingredients and impossible feats.
Makes the average person think they could never be that good, they could never measure up. Baloney, all of that is make believe, coking is not about contests, celebrities, special secret recipes, elite culinary skills, or any other such things.
Cooking is about sharing, being with friends and family, love, and enjoying the fruits the good earth provides.
Cooking is joy, not drama.
All of us can cook, and we don’t have to be made ashamed because our technique doesn’t measure up to some actor on TV.
With a little encouragement and some very basic skills all of us can be great cooks.
Each of us, any of us, can be a Cook Among Us.