Tag: The Pedant in the Kitchen

I was drawn to “Tomates a la Creme”…

A collection of essays on the art of cooking well for one’s friends. On his kitchen beginnings …as with sex, politics, and religion, so with cooking; by the time I began finding out about it for myself, it was too late to ask my parents. They had failed to instruct me, and I would punish…

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…as with sex, politics, and religion, so with cooking…

A collection of essays on the art and obsession of cooking well for one’s friends. On his kitchen beginnings: …as with sex, politics, and religion, so with cooking; by the time I began finding out about it for myself, it was too late to ask my parents. They had failed to instruct me, and I…

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# Permanent link to Cooking, writes Barnes, is the transformation of uncertainty (the recipe) into certainty (the dish) via fuss.