Food for thought

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"Kitchen failure is day-to-day physical reality acted out in dreary detail. Not only has it happened once, you know it's going to happen again, just as soon as you get sloppy, or careless, or forget the perils that await the cook who values recipes over experience. The worst thing about kitchen failure is that it makes people believe they can't cook. In reality, everyone who cooks with any sense of adventure fails regularly in some way, major or minor. The best cooks in the world make mistakes and have bad days. The difference between cooks and non-cooks lies not in their failures, but in how they feel them."

~ Eve Johnson, from "Eating My Words"