Recent content by custard

hello all. first i just want to say thanks to everyone who responded to my previous thread about cooking with herbs, i received so many helpful answers with a lot of info. great site. now as for my current question... i'm a novice cook, trying to learn cooking with a sort of ground-up...

oh and i didn't even notice the link! will check it out tomorrow after work.

Thanks a lot man, I would really appreciate that. I am also incredibly interested in food science - I figure you can have such a deeper and richer understanding of the food you cook if you actually know why it tastes good! (and after all, cooking is chemistry.) I'll keep those two books in...

Thanks for the advice guys. @ Andy M: I'm certainly not attempting to disregard age-old recipes, and am definitely using them as a guide. I was more asking not what, but why? It's great to know that goulash with beef and paprika and additional spices is delcious, but I want to understand why did...

Hi everyone, I just joined the forum because I've become much more interested in cooking lately and this seemed like a good place to bounce my questions off others. I've decided to try to learn cooking from a ground-up type method - instead of just following recipes mechanically like I've done...