Kitchen Sojourn » Memory http://kitchensojourn.com I like to eat. I love to cook. Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:19:56 +0000 en hourly 1 The impostor’s confessional http://kitchensojourn.com/2008/12/the-impostors-confessional/ http://kitchensojourn.com/2008/12/the-impostors-confessional/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:56:47 +0000 Greg Turner http://kitchensojourn.com/?p=36 No one taught me to cook.  I never found a dusty wooden box, faded paper scraps scrawled with generational recipes for pecan pie or great-grandmother’s chicken stew.  I never stood tiptoe by my mother’s elbow as she deftly stirred yolk into flour.  No grandmother graced table with latkes, and I never asked the recipe for Grandma Frieda’s wooblies.  I have no culinary past.  Not a real one, anyway.  This is probably why lately I’ve felt like such an impostor, like I have no business in the kitchen.

Perhaps it’s something I’ll never get over.  Perhaps I’ll suffer forever outside the glass, fingertips flat against the pane, envious of those whose homes were filled with the clatter of pans, the music of mixers.  Perhaps someday I’ll let it go.

In the mean time, I’m going to learn how to cook,  to understand how to create a recipe rather than follow one.  With this blog I hope to write my way through methods, techniques, ingredients and flavors.  Along the way I will tackle how food works, how a person can go from chipped beef on toast to a spring-time gratin.  I hope to discover cooking from the inside out, and I hope that you will join me.

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