There Are No Bad Foods,

I'm An Absolute Connoisseur Of Cheeseburgers And Like To Think That I Can Detect Even Mere Percentages Of Shift In Fat Content In Ground Meat In A Burger And Can Actually Name The Temperature To Which It Was Actually Cooked To The Degree If I'm, You Know, Really On My Game.

If My Wife Made Childhood Obesity Her Mission And I Signed A Law Making 1/8 Cup Of Tomato Paste A Vegetable, I'd Be Sleeping On The Sofa.

Jeff Smith Was The Julia Child Of My Generation. When His Television Show, 'the Frugal Gourmet,' Made Its Debut On Pbs In The 1980s, It Conveyed Such Genuine Enthusiasm For Cooking That I Was Moved For The First Time To Slap Down Cold Cash For A Collection Of Recipes.

Basting Is Evil. Basting Does Nothing For The Meat. Why? Skin. Skin Is Designed To Keep Stuff Out Of The Bird, So Basting Just Lets Heat Out Of The Oven. That Means The Turkey Will Take Longer To Cook... So Don't Touch That Door!

Seriously. I'm Not Very Bright, And It Takes A Lot For Me To Get A Concept - To Really Get A Concept. To Get It Enough That It Becomes Part Of Me. But When It Happens I Get Real Excited About It