On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:16:01 GMT, blake murphy
> wrote:

>On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:48:59 -0800 (PST), Sheldon wrote:
>
>> SteveB wrote:
>>>
>>> How would you define a cook?
>>>
>>> I think it is someone who prepares food who:
>>>
>>> will try new things.
>>> will accept failure.
>>> is adventurous.
>>> is flexible.
>>> is creative.
>>
>> Those are personality traits that haven't a whit to do with cooking
>> ability per se... those apply equally to any endeaver.
>>
>> Any pinhead can follow a recipe step by step, but that's not cooking,
>> that's mimicry.
>>
>> To be considered a cook one must be born with the innate culinary
>> talent the same as one is born with the innate musical talent to be a
>> concert pianist... no number of lessons over any period of time will
>> help either one iota were they not born with the innate ability.
>>
>> Cooking ability is not something one can learn... in fact most of the
>> world's great cooks are totally illiterate, and in fact any attempt to
>> make them literate enough to read recipes can only interfere with and
>> subtract from their culinary talents.
>
>what horseshit. no one is born with the ability to do anything besides
>suck a teat. talent might be necessary, but you still have to learn
>something to develop it.

Thanks for quoting, Blake. Some of these gems are priceless. ROFL!

Carol

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