06-03-2017, 06:09 PM
It's about comfort. It's about familiarity.
I'm talking about day to day cooking.
It's always beneficial to find something new to experience and add to the list of things you've eaten and whatnot.
But for everyday life... especially as it relates to the family, it should be understood that we're trying to comfort people.
Take grilled cheese for example. When we were kids, sometimes we got grilled cheese and it was great, right? We remember exactly the way it smells and tastes. Every time we eat it now, we want it to be the way we remember. It's all programmed in us. We seek to re-experience that same smell/taste/texture/etc. because it's tied to a place of comfort and familiarity. Therefore, we don't go using some different kind of cheese to make grilled cheese. We don't 'try something new' just for the sake of something 'different', or because we don't have the proper kind of cheese. That goes totally against the principle behind cooking to provide comfort and familiarity.
I think of it in terms of a man and wife, and the household.
You cook for your man, and you present it to him as well arranged as possible whilst behaving as pleasantly as possible. It's all about hearkening back to the carefree days of youth wherein all that comfort and familiarity programming took place. It's about security. It's about feeling nurtured.
You're the mommy he has sex with.
I'm talking about day to day cooking.
It's always beneficial to find something new to experience and add to the list of things you've eaten and whatnot.
But for everyday life... especially as it relates to the family, it should be understood that we're trying to comfort people.
Take grilled cheese for example. When we were kids, sometimes we got grilled cheese and it was great, right? We remember exactly the way it smells and tastes. Every time we eat it now, we want it to be the way we remember. It's all programmed in us. We seek to re-experience that same smell/taste/texture/etc. because it's tied to a place of comfort and familiarity. Therefore, we don't go using some different kind of cheese to make grilled cheese. We don't 'try something new' just for the sake of something 'different', or because we don't have the proper kind of cheese. That goes totally against the principle behind cooking to provide comfort and familiarity.
I think of it in terms of a man and wife, and the household.
You cook for your man, and you present it to him as well arranged as possible whilst behaving as pleasantly as possible. It's all about hearkening back to the carefree days of youth wherein all that comfort and familiarity programming took place. It's about security. It's about feeling nurtured.
You're the mommy he has sex with.
