I'm Like A Really Goofy Home Ec

Jeff Smith Was The Julia Child Of My Generation. When His Television Show, 'the Frugal Gourmet,' Made Its Debut On Pbs In The 1980s, It Conveyed Such Genuine Enthusiasm For Cooking That I Was Moved For The First Time To Slap Down Cold Cash For A Collection Of Recipes.

I Only Really Fake It Anymore With Sommeliers Who Are Being Really Snotty To Me And I Don't Want To Take Their Grief And So I Try To Do Something To Kind Of Throw Them Off Or Put Them On The Defensive, Even If I Don't Know What I'm Talking About

I Spent A College Semester In A Small Town In Italy - And That Is Where I Truly Tasted Food For The First Time.

The Skin Is Forming Because Of Proteins, Just Like If You Cook Milk Or Anything Else That's Got A Coagulant Protein In It.

I Think In The End There Are Only 20 Or 30 Tenets Of Basic Cooking. It's Going At Perhaps The Same Issue From Different Angles, From Different Points Of View, From Different Presentation Styles, That Really Makes Things Sink In And Become Embedded.