Chief Longwind Of The North
Certified/Certifiable
VB; I am a better cook than most of my freinds. As stated earlier, that's jsut an observation born of experience. I also stated that I don't hold others to the same cooking standards that I hold myself to. I don't complain about their cooking and am truly thanksful to eat whatever is put before me, be it a humble potted-meat sandwich, or a perfectly prepared pasta dinner. The only time I'm critical of food is when I go to a restaurant and pay for it. My response is still courteous as the wait staff isn't responsible for bad food. I just don't go there again if I don't like the food.
I have eaten burnt rabbit, overcooked on a spit over an open fire when camping with freinds and we all still had a heck of a time. On the other hand, there was an individual that messed with my cooking fire as I was roasting chikens for a group of young men. His meddling left us with chicken burnt on the outside and raw in the middle. I did command him to stay away from my fire.
There is a time to be critical, and a time to be gracious. To know that I can cook better than another doesn't mean that I am a snob. It just means that I know I have a further knowledge of a prticular skill. It's the same as knowing that I can maintain and operate telephone systems, or given the right tools, troubleshoot electronic circuits to the componant level. It doesn't make me a snob to be able to do these things. It just makes me well trained and experienced.
Cooking is a skill based upon knowledge and experience, like any other. We all ahve apptitudes for certain skills, while lacking aptitudes in others. Cooking came easily for me, while math had to be worked at ferociously. It's the way my brain was built. I wish I could paint or sculpt or builld as well as I can cook. I wish I was a genius at piano, or organ, or guitar. But I'm not.
To appreciate your skills is to be able to improve them. To understand that we all have strengths, weaknesses and varying degrees of both is to be humble, teachable. I am a very accomplished cook. But there are those on this site who put my skills to shame.
And as said, just knowing that ones skill is greater than another's, is not in itself snobbery. How that knowledge is used determines whether or not one is a snob.
Seeeeeeya; Goodweed of the North
I have eaten burnt rabbit, overcooked on a spit over an open fire when camping with freinds and we all still had a heck of a time. On the other hand, there was an individual that messed with my cooking fire as I was roasting chikens for a group of young men. His meddling left us with chicken burnt on the outside and raw in the middle. I did command him to stay away from my fire.
There is a time to be critical, and a time to be gracious. To know that I can cook better than another doesn't mean that I am a snob. It just means that I know I have a further knowledge of a prticular skill. It's the same as knowing that I can maintain and operate telephone systems, or given the right tools, troubleshoot electronic circuits to the componant level. It doesn't make me a snob to be able to do these things. It just makes me well trained and experienced.
Cooking is a skill based upon knowledge and experience, like any other. We all ahve apptitudes for certain skills, while lacking aptitudes in others. Cooking came easily for me, while math had to be worked at ferociously. It's the way my brain was built. I wish I could paint or sculpt or builld as well as I can cook. I wish I was a genius at piano, or organ, or guitar. But I'm not.
To appreciate your skills is to be able to improve them. To understand that we all have strengths, weaknesses and varying degrees of both is to be humble, teachable. I am a very accomplished cook. But there are those on this site who put my skills to shame.
And as said, just knowing that ones skill is greater than another's, is not in itself snobbery. How that knowledge is used determines whether or not one is a snob.
Seeeeeeya; Goodweed of the North