cooking

Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.

Taste is the most unexplored sense

My Body Wants to Crave Healthy. I Just Need to Give it the Opportunity.

I still have my little red hardcover notebook__pine now held in place by packing tape, pages dotted with cooking stains__illed with her loving instructions for mandelbrot, nut cake, and strudel.

Nana__ oven-baked fried chicken cut off the bone (with plenty of ketchup) was a huge hit. So were Thanksgiving turkey bathed in gravy and Nana__ Passover brisket

HEALTHY EATING isn't about counting fat grams, dieting, cleanses, and antioxidants; Its about eating food untouched from the way we find it in nature in a balanced way; Whole foods give us all that we need to perfectly nourish ourselves.

Maybe your mind won't remember what I cooked last week, but your body will.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most important, other people. Cooking is one of the more beautiful forms that human generosity takes; that much I sort of knew. But the very best cooking, I discovered, is also a form of intimacy.

Keep it simple, keep it tasty. Salt, pepper and garlic. Shallot another day, lemon grass for nextweek. Nutmeg and cinnamon every now and then.

I was taught how to tie up the loin with a butcher's looping knot and was so excited by the discovery that I went home and practiced. I told Elisa about my achievement. __ tied up everything,_ I said. __ leg of lamb, some utensils, a chair. My wife came home, and I tied up her too._ Elisa shook her head. __et a life,_ she said and returned to her task.

No matter our age, everyone in our household knows that cooking and eating together is where the fun is

I would follow my mother around the kitchen watching and trying to find any way to help. One of the first dishes my mother taught me to make was hollandaise sauce. Though she always served it with broccoli, I soon realized it was equally delicious with asparagus, artichokes, or any other vegetable.

My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and passions of our minds in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook.

Nowadays films and television are what I like to call "Microwave Media". I like mine in the oven, giving the production time to simmer; get the juices flowing, and cooked to perfection. And that takes time. Slow, precious, tempered time. A script is a film's recipe. It's just a piece of paper to the novice cook, but even a recipe needs time to be perfected before it's given to the masses.

Food is what I love, and how I communicate love, and how I calm myself.

Don't just live your life, set it on fire!

There exists a bastard cuisine that is too often assumed to be real French cooking.