When I first started cooking, “simple†turned me off. It seemed like everyone who was anyone was proclaiming that a simple, straight-forward approach to cooking was best. But, to me, simple felt elitist. Like Alice Waters cooking eggs on an iron spoon in her kitchen hearth. I don’t know about you, but my kitchen hearth takes such an unbearably long time to heat up.
I was afraid of simple cooking, so I figured I could prove my prowess in the kitchen with complicated recipes. There were a l (...)
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