On Apr 18, 9:06*am, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:02:50 -0700 (PDT), Bryan
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> >On Apr 17, 10:04*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> >> On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:47:22 -0700 (PDT), Bryan
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> >> >On Apr 17, 8:46*pm, "Bob Terwilliger" >
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> >> >> Eric asked:
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> >> >> > What is it that makes you so passionate about cooking ?
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> >> >> Are the people who responded to this thread REALLY passionate about cooking?
> >> >> PASSIONATE? It's an entertaining hobby for me, and I enjoy it, but it's
> >> >> quite a stretch from there to passion.
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> >> >> ObFood: My planned Easter dessert is a panna cotta with a passionfruit
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> >> >You're a very different sort of cook and eater than I am, and you
> >> >really are very honest about your relationship with food. *You're
> >> >obviously not a supertaster, but you're very discriminating about
> >> >ingredients. *You very seldom *slum*, but often go somewhat over the
> >> >top with combinations. *I sometimes read your posts with fascination,
> >> >though seldom with a desire to emulate.
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> >> >I do cook with passion, and am far more conservative in my choices of
> >> >ingredients. *It's not a hobby, but a part of maximizing pleasure for
> >> >myself, family and sometimes friends. *I almost never critique your
> >> >*recipes* because I don't have the ability to even understand most of
> >> >them. *I do understand the crappy ingredient recipes I see, because
> >> >I've been subjected to them.
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> >> Is that the long version of saying you're not a keyboard kook?
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> >How do you define, "keyboard kook?"
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> I'm sure you already know and I don't answer rhetoricals, especially
> since the term speaks for itself.

I don't know so it's not rhetorical, and the term does not speak for
itself.

>*And learn how to use commas
> properly, you write like a typical high school dropout. *I'm
> absolutely positive that you didn't graduate high school.

I didn't. I tested out at 16, didn't go to school for 10 years, and
ended up graduating Summa *** Laude from St. Louis Community College.
I never completed my Bachelor's at U of MO, St. Louis. I quit college
to start a punk band in 1996. Funny, but you also misused a comma.
After "properly," there should have been a period and new sentence
unless you used a conjunction like "as" after the comma. NGs are
pretty informal, Sheldon. You know that I'm neither stupid, nor
uneducated.

--Bryan