Wednesday, January 07, 2009

It Is Not About The Tools

Recent Mark Bittman articles of interest:

So Your Kitchen Is Tiny. So What?
...when it comes to kitchens, size and equipment don’t count nearly as much as devotion, passion, common sense and, of course, experience. To pretend otherwise — to spend tens of thousands of dollars or more on a kitchen before learning how to cook, as is sadly common — is to fall into the same kind of silly consumerism that leads people to believe that an expensive gym membership will get them into shape or the right bed will improve their sex life. As runners run and writers write, cooks cook, under pretty much any circumstance.

Fresh Start for a New Year? Let’s Begin in the Kitchen - Here, then, is my little list of items you might spurn, along with some essential pantry and long-keeping refrigerator items you might consider.

I'm not sure I could get by without canned beans and I would add whole nutmeg to the list.