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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Does Memorizing Recipes Make You a Better Cook?

"There are hundreds of thousands of recipes out there, but few of them help you to be a better cook in any substantial way, Michael Ruhlman writes in the preface to his fascinating and pompous new book, Ratio. In fact, they may hurt you as a cook by keeping you chained to recipes. He argues that once you've memorized certain 'bedrock' culinary ratios, you can cook virtually anything without resorting to a cookbook."

One Party Creativity: Zero Parts Recipe
by Jennifer Reese
http://www.slate.com/id/2219243/pagenum/all

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