"PENMART01" > wrote in message
...
> >"Bill Boylan"
> >
> >Moving from one place to another during my long life I
> >have lost many good recipes. The software "Now You're Cooking" was
> >recommended to me. I'm wondering how many good cooks use recipe software.
>
> Good cooks don't need recipes. Did Michaelangelo decorate the Cistine
Chapel
> with paint by numbers... when was the last time you saw Pavorotti
perfoming
> while referring to music.... how would you feel if while getting ready for
> departure you saw the pilot board arms loaded with a stack of flight
manuals.
> If everytime you prepare a dish you need to pull out a recipe then you're
not
> any kind of cook... you're less than a burger flipper... even they don't
need a
> recipe.
>
>

How do good cooks GET good? By following recipes initially, and then
improvising on their own. Eventually you don't need them.