coming soon to this blog:
learn to cook to your heart's content in four little lessons.
It is not difficult to cook.
You start by using your senses. The beauty of cooking is that you need all of them.
Your imagination allows you to blend all those splendid perceptions in one perfect pot.
To bring it about you need no more than a common or garden understanding of physics and chemistry,
and a managing hand for your cupboard, fridge, and shopping.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
UMAMI (or cooking like a slut)
I am wrestling with umami, the so called 5th taste. And I think I have her where I want.
It does exist. The University of Miami proved that our tongue has detectors for a substance that was found and identified a century ago in Japan. It has been isolated, termed MSG (monosodium glutamate) and added profusely in several Oriental cuisines. Now I am way to proud to solve any problem with a sprinkler, nor do I believe that it is necessary.
What do mushrooms, tuna, aged cheese, cured pork, sesame, soy-sauce, yesterday's tomato-sauce, and artichoke have in common?
Do you want to learn to please? To send out satisfaction from your kitchen as a private - but still pimpy - puppetmaster? Let me know. I will prepare some short essays on how to serve shameless pleasure on your plates. Of course it would be better to send for me - and any slut would say as much. All I'll do is help you open up another door, one that leads to a more conscious fulfilment of the senses that you always had.
It does exist. The University of Miami proved that our tongue has detectors for a substance that was found and identified a century ago in Japan. It has been isolated, termed MSG (monosodium glutamate) and added profusely in several Oriental cuisines. Now I am way to proud to solve any problem with a sprinkler, nor do I believe that it is necessary.
What do mushrooms, tuna, aged cheese, cured pork, sesame, soy-sauce, yesterday's tomato-sauce, and artichoke have in common?
Do you want to learn to please? To send out satisfaction from your kitchen as a private - but still pimpy - puppetmaster? Let me know. I will prepare some short essays on how to serve shameless pleasure on your plates. Of course it would be better to send for me - and any slut would say as much. All I'll do is help you open up another door, one that leads to a more conscious fulfilment of the senses that you always had.
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