was P Re: [Sca-cooks] Plentyn Delit, now taught to cook

[aeduin]

I was taught by my mother and grandmother to cook by eye and taste.  It 
certainly annoyed the people at Cal Poly's restaurant school when I cooked 
like that instead of blindly following the recipes.

AEduin



>I'm a traditional 'by eye' cook, and I often find that reading the
>original recipe (in translation, if necessary) is a lot easier than
>following someone else's modern style recipe. I wonder if it has to do
>with the way people's brains work or just the way we are taught to cook?
>
>-- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
>"But he's a human being and terrible things happen to him so attention
>must be paid.... Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a
>person."  -- Arthur Miller, _Death of a Salesman_