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There's no entry there for "Trial and Error".

My cooking skills grew over the years from the time I was about eight years old when I asked my mother to bake me some cookies. Her reaction was to point to the kitchen and tell me "there's the cookbooks, there's the kitchen, learn to make them yourself!"

It wasn't that my mother wasn't willing to bake, she just felt that as a young man I needed to learn to be more independent. If I could learn to bake cookies, I could learn to make other things and I'd be able to feed myself.

Fast forward not these days, I'm a lousy baker but I'm a decent cook by all accounts. All by learning from trial and error.

That's not to say that I haven't learned from or been influenced by TV cooks. I just couldn't pick any one of them on the list because they have all contributed to my cooking knowledge in one way or another in their own fashion. Bobby Flay and Emeril Legase both have styles that are closer to the style I adhere to but Jeff Ware and Graham Kerr have also influenced me. Mario Battalle, Rachael Ray and the rest have all contributed something to my repetoire.

I'll never forget seeing Julia Child taking a blow torch to a merengue that she wanted brown peaks on. Who can forget "The Galloping Gourmet" and his antics before he swore off drinking. Alton Brown has started to grow on me a bit and his offbeat sense of humor in the kitchen.

As the pastor of a church I used to attend used to say: "have the sense of an old cow, eat the hay and leave the straw" Each TV cook in turn has something to offer.

Better yet are the many cooks from around the world that I've had the chance to learn from. Those folks in person have had more influence on my than any TV cook could have. Seeing the food made, smelling the smells and tasting the end product will educate you in ways that no TV cook or cookbook can ever educate you.


Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
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In reply to Re: I mostly learned to cook from: by blue_cowdawg
in thread I mostly learned to cook from: by tye 

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