cooking

Cooking is weird. There are a bunch of things that naturally taste good, like nuts and berries and other fruits and raw vegetables. Or even cooked vegetables. But cooking seems to specialize in making totally inedible stuff taste really good.

The evolution of this art puzzles me.

It's almost as confusing as the evolution of beer.

Lately, some of my friends have been asking me about cooking and how one cooks well. I'm not really sure, since I don't consider myself to be a cook. But, from what I can tell, cooking just means adding as many tasty things as possible to something which is naturally untasty.

When I cook, I often must decide whether or not to add a particular ingredient. When this occurs, I ask myself: tasty, or untasty?

If tasty, I add. If untasty, I do not add.

There are some exceptions to this rule. One must use common sense: will this tasty go well with the current level of untasty?

Note: In the case of tasty bacon (pictured above), the answer is almost always yes.