[H_KARLUK]

According to your opinion what's the importance of cooking ? Do you deal with different food cultures ?

[Hanoi5]

Someone said that you should eat to live and not live to eat (maybe eat to be able to live and not living for the sake of eating). But I think food is a very important thing in life, especially enjoying food and to enjoy food you need to cook (I enjoy home meals the most when I had a hand in making them), so I think cooking is very important.

Different food cultures? Not at home, maybe when going to a special restaurant, like I did yesterday, Persian food. It's nice to try different things.

[hrothgar]

Cooking denatures proteins, making them easier to digest.

Subsequently, the ancestors of homo sapiens did not require as large / expensive a digestive system. There were also significant impacts on the evolutionary development of the teeth and jaws.

The main cultures that I deal with are Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Aspergillus Oryzae. I've had unfortunate run ins with Enteritis Salmonella and E. coli enteritis. I am trying my best to avoid all contact with clostridium botulinum.

[hanp]

As a professional cook it is fair to say that cooking is a very important part of my life. In my restaurant in Amsterdam I often start with traditional French and Italian recipes, but I use influences from all six continents to arrive at my own creations.

When travelling I try to combine bridge tournaments with interesting culinary experiences. It seems to me that the world of cooking is as rich and diverse as the game of bridge.

[blackshoe]

What, you ignore the cooking of Antarctica?

I'm pretty sure that our folks down there have come up with some pretty creative ways to prepare their Meals, Ready to Eat (MREs). After all, what else is there to do?

[jjbrr]

hrothgar nailed it.

[JoAnneM]

Have you seen Julie and Julia? A wonderful movie about cooking. I have two relatives who are brilliant chefs, graduates of culinary institututes, and neither of them can hold a job long because they are so "tempermental". Having to create recipes under someone else must be like having to paint under someone else's direction.

I think there is a time and a place for "living to eat" and "eating to live". Like right now at a bridge tournament where in four days I am going to manage one really fine meal (last night) and the rest just whatever comes along, like tonight at the District board meeting. lol