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The Tradition Of Italian Cooking Is That Of The Matriarch. This Is The Cooking Of Grandma. She Didn't Waste Time Thinking Too Much About The Celery. She Got The Best Celery She Could And Then She Dealt With It.

There Are Pockets Of Great Food In Spain, But There Are Also Pockets Of Very Mediocre Food In Spain, And The Same In Morocco And The Same In Croatia And The Same In Germany And The Same In Austria.

When You Cut That Eggplant Up And You Roast It In The Oven And You Make The Tomato Sauce And You Put It On Top, Your Soul Is In That Food, And There's Something About That That Can Never Be Made By A Company That Has Three Million Employees.

In Growing Up In Seattle, I Don't Know A Single Family That Didn't Barbecue Or Cook On The Weekends And Make Its Own Kind Of Simple, Pared-down, What I Call Pacific Northwest Cooking.

The Very Common Error Of Young Or Unconfident Cooks Is To Keep Putting More Of Their Own Personal Ideology Into A Plate Until There's So Much Noise That You Really Can't Even Hear A Tune. You Can Say More In An Empty Space Than You Can In A Crowded One.