natural cooks (was Re: SC - Re:Balthazar's expresso cake)

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

And it came to pass on 2 May 00,, that Black Jade wrote:

> Some people are not natural cooks, some people
> are.
> 
> -Katerine

And a lot of us fall into the middle.  I am not an instinctive cook, but I 
can produce tasty food.  Sometimes it takes a bit of tinkering and a few  
instructive failures, which is why I would never cook a dish for a feast 
that I had not pre-tested.

Brighid, who redacted a rather nice 19th century cider cake last night


Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
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