> "Kswck" writes:
>
>>"PENMART01" wrote:
>> >"Bill Boylan" wrote:
>> >
>> >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 Sistine
>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.

Um, you're making a fallacious assumption, not everybody gets "good"... in fact
the vast majority never get any better at cooking than someone with a tin ear
gets at playing the piano, no matter how many lessons they are made to take.
Being a good cook *requires/mandates* innate talent. Following recipes is the
first clue that one is a lousy cook and will always be so.


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