{"id":19,"date":"2009-12-28T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/cooking-and-stitching\/"},"modified":"2018-11-28T11:00:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T16:00:41","slug":"cooking-and-stitching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2009\/12\/cooking-and-stitching.html","title":{"rendered":"cooking and stitching"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first started cooking with Alice Waters’ book, The Art of Simple Food<\/a>, I couldn’t quite put my finger on why I loved the book so much. But it started me making souffles and simple salads in a way I hadn’t done before.<\/p>\n

Then a few weeks ago I baked Todd a bread pudding from this recipe<\/a> and loved the experience. And it suddenly dawned on me what appealed so much about these recipes: they explain the process of baking and educate me about why the steps are done in a particular way. For example, the bread pudding recipe instructs, “It is important to create an emulsion quickly or else a chemical reaction that produces heat will occur. If you do not whisk immediately, this heat will cook the egg yolks and cause lumps in the custard.” Ah ha! So now I know what I’m doing and why I’m doing it.<\/p>\n

It occurred to me that I like recipes like this so much because they use the same philosophy I use when writing sewing patterns. I think it’s fun and useful to learn why things are done a particular way, and it makes me a better cook (or seamstress) when I understand the process rather than just following a set of instructions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first started cooking with Alice Waters’ book, The Art of Simple Food, I couldn’t quite put my finger on why I loved the book so much. 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