Looney foods and kooky cookin’

Lately I’ve began learning the rudiments of how to feed myself. That is, I’m teaching myself to make the thing they call real food. The problem is my memory isn’t quite what it used to be and cooking is a veritable treasure trove of pitfalls and easy mistakes. Since I have to write it all down anyway, I thought I might as well put my notes online.

Secondarily, I have great trouble learning things from the bottom up—I’m a strong top‐down learner myself. That means that your typical cookbook just doesn’t cut it for me. While culinary folklore and tried’n’true recipes are obviously necessary, I’d rather get a feel for the generalities from the start. Techniques, tricks, sensible combinations of ingredients, that sort of thing. Since I largely have to learn these by myself, it makes sense to write about that side of cooking as well.

For now this project lives on a single page and is more of a culinary notepad than a readable text. I imagine I’ll have to beat some structure into it, some day. But that’s then…