• Cooking Beautiful Food

  Filed under Eatable, George's Notes
  Nov 12

  Cooking beautiful food does not require a degree or years of experience.  Nature has provided plenty of enchanting and gorgeous foodstuffs.  To start, a trip to a farm, market or grocery store can be an inspiring adventure.  Each vegetable has a unique personality, formed by a specific combination of water, soil, sun and even moonlight.  Just as every person is unique, each vegetable has an individual fingerprint.  Other ingredients have enticing characteristics as well. The greenish hue of extra virgin olive oil, a bin of grains like rice, wheat berries, barley or millet; Spices like the reddish hue of black mustard seeds, green cardamom pods, bright red of paprika, smooth bark of cinnamon, shocking yellow of turmeric and pellet shaped perfection of whole coriander; Herbs such as the crisp edges of fresh mint leaves, the evergreen woodsy rosemary, the delicate strands of fresh dill and the sensual leaves of fresh Genovese basil.  Food entices the mind to imagine possibilities of cooking and eating.  The attraction can be almost carnal, evoking emotions and desires from deep within the psyche.  This is why it is prudent to shop without the presence of hunger pangs!

  
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