How I Taught My Brother To Cook
Improvisational Tuscan-Provençal Cookery (and other good stuff to eat)
Kids are the future of food
If we don't expose kids to good food, or fail to offer them things to try that sometimes require trusting and training their palates - then we are failing them and the cultures from whence they descended. Even as something as simple as duck probably would probably get rejected by a youngster brought up on bland, prepared foods that are nuked by parents who "don't have the time to cook" and don't feel like challenging their kids to try new things. If kids eat what you eat (whether it's duck, octopus, broccoli, anchovy pizza, artichokes, grilled sardines, eggplant rasavangy, steak tartare, posole, or head cheese) then from their early ages they'll not only tolerate but enjoy the wide range of foods that the world can offer. Chew on that.
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Comment by Patrick on June 8, 2009 at 12:49pm - An important caveat to this is, what happens when the gravy train stops and they have to fend for themselves? Many people were brought up with home cooking only to succumb to less desirable food habits, for whatever reason, but primarily the excuse of time. Sure time can be a valid excuse/reason but at least eat something easy to make even if its a tuna sandwich.
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Oh. I thought it was the Israeli response to suicide bombers.
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looks good to me! and farting is fine, right Pat?
no !
first boiled, them braised and I add herbs, parsley, pepper ...
nobody at home want to hear about this vegetable anymore except me !!!
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do you make your own nougat?
braised with cream?
yes, lingonberries. we can get them at IKEA
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Thanksturking !
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