On food and eating
that salt added after cooking that is not fully dissolved [into solution] has a more pronounced salt flavor than dissolved salt [Thomas Keller.
Science of salt
Cooking reaches beyond buying and selling to touch nearly all of human experience. It connects to domesticity and curiosity; to history and culture; to care and love.
Learn to code CAN be the same as Learn to cook?
Cooking food will go the same way as sewing? I hope not!
Food can just be food. You don’t have to earn it or burn it off or save up for it. You’re allowed to eat for comfort and celebration and just because you like eating it. your allowed to eat more than your friends and siblings and significant other. You’re allowed to enjoy your pancakes even if everyone else skips breakfast (and they don’t have to... See more
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On being slow and consistent
The sandwich was not invented by an average eater. The Earl of Sandwich was an obsessive gambler, and demanded food in a form that would not require him to leave the card table while he ate.
Origins of sandwich
Common opinion has it that hunger is the physiological need to eat, whereas appetite is framed as just a desire to eat, driven by emotional or sensory pleasure rather than bodily need. We see this in the division between nutrition and gastronomy, or between food as fuel and food as pleasure.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
But what’s really magical about chicken soup isn’t the nutrient quota or the fact it shifts your snot along: it’s that it is a delicious, precious metaphor for caring, and for nourishing. What feels really good about feeding yourself chicken soup – whether it’s a bone broth simmered for 12 hours or a microwaved bowl of Campbell’s Cream of Chicken –
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Soup as a metaphor of self care
The whole point of it is that nothing hinges on your baking success or failure. You won’t go hungry if it all goes wrong, because cake was never going to form the backbone of your diet in the first place. And whatever happens, you’ll still get to lick the bowl.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
Bake anyways. Even if you suck at it.