On Feb 26, 6:20*am, Janet Baraclough >
wrote:
> The message 1>
> from "Michael \"Dog3\"" > contains these words:
>
> > I honestly enjoy eating French cuisine. *OTOH, I don't enjoy making it.. *I
> > don't enjoy it because I am far too inept in the kitchen to master it very
> > well. *It's probably just me but French cooking, in the gourmet sense, is
> > very complicated to me.
>
> * A misconception promoted by pretentious restaurants which are not in
> France :-).
>
> The superb food the French take for granted in their home kitchens, and
> local restaurants is just a wide variety of the very freshest, tastiest
> quality of *raw ingredients (as local as possible) cooked from scratch,
> as simply as possible.

Shoot, I can do that right here in Michigan. Granted, I can't pop
down to
the Megamart and get the ingredients, but it is certainly possible, in
season,
to get some very good locally produced ingredients.

Cindy Hamilton