SC - Great Cooks

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/3/00 9:04:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
dpoole1 at airmail.net writes:

<< Anyone else's thought's on what makes a great cook????? >>

Tasting, tasting, and more tasting. Most great cooks continuously taste their 
preparations  throughout the entire process of cooking them, adjusting things 
as needed. Inevitably in a kitchen setting when a helper is given a recipe to 
 make and it turns out less than ideal, they always say they followed the 
recipe exactly and respond negatively when asked if they tasted and adjusted 
it at each crucial stage in it's preparation. Also the use of salt separates 
a great cook from other cooks. Leaving out the salt (in whatever quantity) 
makes for a bland dish. Adding a pinch of sugar to all vegetables which 
produces a 'garden' fresh flavor in them.

Ras