| No novice cook can consider themselves a gourmet | | | | Your table settings become more simply elegant. |
| cook. Achieving that status comes only at the end of | | | | You find yourself looking more and more at kitchen |
| a long road of cooking. Like any other art .... it takes | | | | "gadgets". |
| practice, practice, practice to become a gourmet cook. | | | | In response to comments such as "that must have |
| Perhaps it comes after long years of schooling where | | | | taken you forever to make" you honestly answer.. "oh |
| cooking, cooking, cooking is the word of the day and | | | | not at all.. it really was simple!!" |
| the end result is working in a top notch A - list | | | | To you .. the gourmet cook ... it didn't take long at all |
| restaurant in New York or Paris. | | | | and it was simple. |
| Then again. . ..... maybe the mother at home cooking | | | | To the novice cook .. it would take an eternity ... far far |
| meals every day for her family one day finds herself | | | | from simple... and if you stop to think... that was you not |
| spending hours in the kitchen preparing one meal.. just | | | | all that long ago. |
| because .. and loving it. | | | | You have become a gourmet cook without even |
| Could there possibly be a working mother who one | | | | trying. |
| time found preparing meals at the end of a long work | | | | Your life cooking will never ever be the same as it |
| day extremely tedious ... finding herself looking for that | | | | was. |
| extra special recipe for her husband's birthday meal? | | | | No longer will you be satisfied to make those "meat, |
| However achieved ..... it is after years of study and | | | | potatoes and gravy" meals without that extra |
| practice or years of doing everyday meals that one | | | | "something" in it. |
| becomes a part of the "gourmet cooking world".. | | | | No longer will you be satisfied to set your table without |
| suddenly opening up to the fact that not all recipes are | | | | having candles on it. |
| the same .. and that cooking food has suddenly | | | | No longer will you be able to let anyone leave the table |
| become an exciting challenge and fun. | | | | without that one taste of sweetness that is dessert to |
| Suddenly you can tell by just looking at a recipe | | | | balance the meal. |
| whether it will taste good or not., how healthy it is, how | | | | Perhaps you have recognized that in yourself ... |
| appropriate to fill a "mood" ...... simply by the combination | | | | perhaps you haven't ... even though it is there. |
| of ingredients and spices and herbs and flavorings. | | | | Gourmet Cook. |
| Those recipes that in the past seemed way too | | | | It is not just the well schooled in France who achieve |
| complicated or intricate now beckon you enticingly and | | | | that status. |
| family and friends begin looking forward to each and | | | | Congratulations! |
| every meal you serve. | | | | You are an achiever! |