Thursday, May 10, 2007

Food, Sex, and Professionalism

Julian Barnes talks about constructing recipes from cookbooks by famous chefs:

Lesson Two: that the relationship between professional and domestic chef has similarities to a sexual encounter. One party is normally more experienced than the other; and either party should have the right, at any moment, to say, "No, I'm not going to do that."

Precisely!

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