[Sca-cooks] Feast costs/budgets

[Dragon]

Nick Sasso wrote:

>I think that there are some people in this world who can look at a piece of
>cloth and see the garment, a piece of stone and see the scultpure.  You and
>I had a discourse several years back about being able to see/think/envision
>in tastes and textures.  Not everyone has the ability, and not everyone can
>learn it.
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I have to agree with this wholeheartedly.

Not everyone can learn it, that's true, just as I have tried and 
tried to no avail to learn how to draw but all I come out with is 
chicken scratches... However, it is not something that you just have 
an innate ability for either, natural talent can play a role but it 
isn't everything. Knowledge and practice makes the skill a lot better 
and training your memory for taste is just as important as it is for 
any other skill.

Over the years, I have developed the ability to taste something and 
reverse engineer a recipe as well as to be able to read a recipe and 
have a very good idea how it will turn out. A lot of that is 
familiarity with the ingredients and a sense for how cooking methods 
affect them. Pay attention to what you are eating, read the recipe if 
you can, ask questions about how it was prepared and file that all 
away for future reference, I think many will be surprised at how much 
their cooking skills improve just from such observations.


Dragon

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