Andover Press

by Barbara Conable

How to Find Your Cooking Style is a classic workbook designed to guide the reader by means of instructional material and well-placed questions to a gratifying conclusion, in this case, a cooking style all his own or her own. The instructional material is everything Barbara Conable has learned over a lifetime of eating, cooking, and observing about how to develop a cooking style perfectly suited to the person. The instruction includes:

• getting very clear about what you like to eat, what you don’t like to eat, what you choose not to eat, what you can’t eat;
• learning how to find the time to cultivate and enjoy a cooking style;
• pondering your ancestry for clues to your cooking style;
• exploring your affinities and proclivities with regard to cooking and eating;
• deciding the degree to which the region in which you live will influence your cooking style;
• determining the degree to which other interests like gardening, hunting, or travel will influence the way you cook and eat;
• discovering the degree to which your lifestyle otherwise will affect your cooking style;
• learning whether it is important for you to cook using only local ingredients;
• discovering the degree to which your cooking and eating will be tied to the seasons;
• creating recipes that suit you perfectly;
• learning to create a useful recipe file;
• creating a permanent but flexible shopping list to simplify your life;
• winnowing and organizing your kitchen so that it perfectly supports your emerging style;
• equipping your kitchen;
• figuring out how you want to cook and eat on holidays and for special occasions;
• staying physically comfortable in the kitchen as you cook.

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