June 17, 2005> 10:37 PM
cuisine I love to cook. I love, love, love it. I love to create things that taste good. It is much like art, except it's really not to look at or meditate with, but to eat. Art for the palate. I'm also good at it. I'm good at taking raw food materials and putting them together to make dishes that are good to eat. I have made it my business to learn about sauces and how things cook in pans as opposed to ovens, about flavor combinations. Hence, I do most of the cooking in our family. Now, I don't always "create" something amazing for us to eat. I'm not always in the mood to do that. It is a bit of work.
I want to cook more. I have this notion that I would like to be a chef - a professional one. The reality there is, though, that I don't think that will ever happen. I'm not even sure I really want it to happen. I've learned enough about the restaurant industry through Liz's job over the past 6 years to know that it is a high-stress job. I don't think I want that, or would do well in that setting. Design is stressful enough sometimes with deadlines and people standing over your shoulder saying, "can you make the logo bigger?"
Nonetheless, I want to cook more for people. We have a new house being built. It will have a kitchen, and a nice kitchen for cooking and entertaining. Well, "entertaining" is an odd word for having people over and hanging out and eating with them. Now, I can certainly entertain people, by cooking or comedy or whatever, but I'm not sure that's what I mean to say. I mean to say the kitchen will be nice for cooking with people there within talking distance. We have also sort of splurged for nice appliances as a part of this house. That will make things work well for cooking for people too. I'm looking forward to it.
Of course I may start cooking more earlier than moving to the new house. I may have some parties. I may also, since I'm not rich, have a pot on the hall table for guests to pitch in so we don't go broke buying food, good food. So, you might get an invite sometime - for a cuisine party - a cooking party - to talk, eat, laugh, drink a little, eat some more and just generally hang out. Sounds like good fringe benefits from doing something just so I can cook. I'll take that and run with it. Eat well.
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