Foundations
For a good part of my life, I’ve been what you might call an “armchair cook” – and in fact, there’s nothing wrong with that; I still love getting lost in the pages of a cookbook or watching chefs battle it out on television. However, a few years ago I started yearning to actually create some of the dishes that I’d been observing from the sidelines.
As a teacher, I know that you learn by “doing” – so, in the winter of 2013 I made the move off the “couch” and into the kitchen.
I’d been collecting cookbooks for years and had amassed a pretty large collection (enough to require moving one car out of the garage and into the driveway – priorities!), but I still found myself at the bookstore looking for just the right cookbook to begin with.
It was the title that drew me to that first selection – echoing my interest in, but lack of comfort, when it came to the kitchen. Thumbing through it, I knew it was the right one to kick off my cooking journey, and I spent the month of January immersed in it – building skills, building confidence, and ultimately building a love of cooking.
This week I look forward to revisiting that foundational cookbook – The Can’t Cook Book by Jessica Seinfeld.
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