If You're Good With A Knife, You

A Meringue Is Really Nothing But A Foam. And What Is A Foam After All, But A Big Collection Of Bubbles? And What's A Bubble? It's Basically A Very Flimsy Little Latticework Of Proteins Draped With Water. We Add Sugar To This Structure, Which Strengthens It. But Things Can, And Do, Go Wrong.

'outlaw Cook' Was A Revelation. Folks Like Jeff Smith And Marcella Hazan Got Me Interested In Cooking, But John Thorne Pushed Me Into The Path That I Follow To This Day. This Is The Only Cookbook I've Ever Read That Understands How Men Really Eat: Over The Sink, In The Dark, Greasy To The Elbows.

What Tends To Happen Is That People Will Go - They've Got Hot Broth, You Know, They've Added Some Liquid To Their Drippings, They've Brought That Up To Heat. And Then They Try To Add In A Big Clump Of Just Kind Of A Handful Of Flour, And Of Course, It Turns Into Library Paste.

I'm Not A Slave Driver Or A Yeller. I Was Yelled At In Kitchens And Other Workplaces.

I Have Nothing But Sympathy For The People Who Are Forced To Work With Me. I'm Better Now At Picking Out Those That Want To Play That Game With Me, And Those That Don't.