Philosophy of home cooking

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Unless you live alone in a cave or hermitage, cooking and eating are social activities: even hermit monks have one communal meal a month.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in. No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at their most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers. One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is 'talking' about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating WHILE you are eating with friends. People who like to cook like to talk about food. Plain old cooks (as opposed to the geniuses in fancy restaurants) tend to be friendly. After all, without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago. Origin: Home Cooking Book, by Laurie Colwin. Shared by: Sharon Stevens, Dec/94.

Submitted By SHARON STEVENS On 01-01-95

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