Lauren Costello, NOTES ON COOKING; THE COMPETENT COOK

Lauren Costello, NOTES ON COOKING; THE COMPETENT COOK

Lauren: We have a note in the book that says, “Don't be grim. Food preparation should be joyful and so should you.” It does. It gets in the food. That's why you can have twenty people make the same thing and follow the same recipe, even use the same jug of oil and the same flat of eggs, and you got twenty different things. Your stuff, you, gets into it. It’s an unbelievable, spectacular, snowflake kind of phenomenon of being a cook or an artist or any kind of craftsman.