Sheldon wrote:

> I was being nice, and offering constructive criticism so folks could
> learn... and I was being polite and tactful... at least I didn't say it
> was a lousy recipe, but it is, the lousiest... and total waste of two
> hours.

I knew there was something wrong with this picture...
>
> Anyone can cook, anyone can speak cooking by regurgitation... but to
> actually cook well... now that is a true talent.
>
> You do realize that in all the years I've been subscribed to rfc I've
> never yet asked how to cook anything, never needed to. Cooking is an
> art form, an innate talent... cooking cannot be learned (no way, no
> how), you're either born knowing how or not. Going to cooking school
> is to learn cooking by rote, that's cooking by the monkey see monkey do
> method... no different from paint by numbers. Anyone who has to have
> slews of recipe books and has to ask slews of questions can't cook well
> and never will.

Oh, Bullshit! Nothing wrong with learning from your "betters".

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