Sauces

The Good Cook

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‘All culinary tasks should be performed with
reverential love, don’t you think so? To say that a
cook must possess the requisite outfit of culinary
skill and temperament – that is hardly more than
saying that a soldier must appear in uniform.
You can have a bad soldier in uniform. The true
cook must have not only those externals, but a
large dose of general worldly experience. He is
the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist
and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds
in his palm the happiness of mankind, the
welfare of generations yet unborn.... If she drinks
a little, why, it is all to the good. It shows that
she is fully equipped on the other side of her
dual nature. It proves that she possesses the
prime requisite of the artist; sensitiveness and a