Welcome

Several years ago I had the pleasure of attending a management retreat at which the facilitator asked the following question: “Name three things you will almost never find in a professional kitchen.” The answers were potholders, measuring spoons, and recipes.

His point was simple, but telling — “It’s not the recipe that matters, it’s the cook.”

Good managers use management gurus for inspiration, nothing more, much as good cooks use recipes.

People are always asking me for the recipe to this or that. My answer is inevitably “Uh-uh-uh.”

I own over 600 cookbooks, yet very seldom follow a recipe completely. They inspire, they do not dictate.

This newsletter, then, is for what I call The Ept Cook — those of you who can take an idea and go have fun with it, confident that it will turn out just fine. Ept Cooks. Ruminative Cooks. That’s us.

Have fun.


What We’re About

· Food Inspirtations
· Food Stories
· Comments on Cookbooks
· Food Sources On the Internet
· Finding Things On Sale
· Food Presentation
· Trucs