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A Home Cook Who Relies Too Much On A Recipe Is Sort Of Like A Pilot Who Reads The Plane's Instruction Manual While Flying.

The Problem Is I Am Both A Procrastinator And A Power Junkie, So I Am Very Frustrating To Work With.

Slicing A Warm Slab Of Bacon Is A Lot Like Giving A Ferret A Shave. No Matter How Careful You Are, Somebody's Going To Get Hurt.

No Matter How Much Creativity Goes Into It, Cooking Is An Art. Or Perhaps I Should Say A Craft. It Abides By Absolute Rules, Physics, Chemistry, Etc. And That Means That Unless You Understand The Science You Cannot Reach The Art. We're Not Talking About Painting Here. Cooking's More Like Engineering. I Happen To Think That There Is Great Beauty In Great Engineering.

I Think In The End There Are Only 20 Or 30 Tenets Of Basic Cooking. It's Going At Perhaps The Same Issue From Different Angles, From Different Points Of View, From Different Presentation Styles, That Really Makes Things Sink In And Become Embedded.