I Became A Cook So I Could

I Am Firmly In The Lard Camp. It Must Be What We Call Leaf Lard, Which Is A Specific Kind Of Lard That Resides Around Certain Internal Organs In The Pig.

I Know People That Could Serve Me Canned Tuna And Saltine Crackers And Have Me Feel More At Home At Their Table Than Some People Who Can Cook Circles Around Me. The More You Try To Impress People, Generally The Less You Do.

My Advice: Write Down Everything You Eat. It's Amazing What That "self Honesty" Can Do For You. (do You Really Want To Have To Confess That Doughnut? I Thought Not.)

The Kitchen's A Laboratory, And Everything That Happens There Has To Do With Science. It's Biology, Chemistry, Physics. Yes, There's History. Yes, There's Artistry. Yes, To All Of That. But What Happened There, What Actually Happens To The Food Is All Science.

I'm An Absolute Connoisseur Of Cheeseburgers And Like To Think That I Can Detect Even Mere Percentages Of Shift In Fat Content In Ground Meat In A Burger And Can Actually Name The Temperature To Which It Was Actually Cooked To The Degree If I'm, You Know, Really On My Game.