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I guess the first steps in teaching someone how to cook is really getting them to talk about what foods they love and a lot people no matter what age from five years old to 50 can be very nervous about different cuisines and different ingredients and things they do not know.
I will say that in a 20 years I have been in the food publishing industry American pallet has really grown much more sophisticated and their much more willing to try things they have never heard off like galingo or lemon grass. And I know that it for curious, one of the things that people love to do is to find something in the farmers market like pea grains and typen pea grains and up pops hundreds and hundreds of recipes that they can then used to cook those pea grains, and that is kind of an evolution.
The American pallet today and it is such a fantastic thing that is happening in this country.
So I think that the number one thing to do when you choose somebody to cook is to start it with what they love. And then to go on from their and to show them the real kind of basics you know how to brace, how to roast and not make a complicated at all, because it really doesn’t have to be complicated.
On the other hand, I am not a huge proponent of this kind of speed cooking where you are taking lots of mixes and dumping things in bowls and kind of calling it home cook meals because that is not the case. There is no reason why you know you cannot show someone how to just cook an egg properly. It is very easy to do.
And I do think that we have lost that in this country and it is coming back now with things like the food network and with the epicureans in and the younger generation really embracing all the different new foods and flavors that they can try. Not just in this country, but as they travel abroad.
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