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Monday, September 28, 2009 - 7:53 PM
Cooking can be considered a mirror of life. You get out of it what you put in. If you use sub par ingredients you get sub par results. At the same time, you can take a few simple ingredients and turn it into something magnificent. Great pizza dough can be made with just yeast, flour, sugar, olive oil, salt and water. Cooking like life also requires some hard work. You have to chop, cut, slice, stir, and measure your ingredients. Sometimes you add too much sauce or maybe not enough cheese to your pie. Maybe you didn’t get your dough just right. Like life, we have to learn to adapt to our mistakes and try to fix our mishaps as we go. Hopefully, we can recover. Sometimes we even end up with a better dish then we originally set out for. Other times, our dish is ruined. That’s ok as long as you don’t give up. As long as you learned something from your mistake, all is not lost. You see that’s what cooking is. Cooking like most art forms is a strive towards perfection. Maybe you don’t make the perfect pizza this time, but you realize that maybe if I cook the dough for a couple minutes less, it tastes so much better, and the next time you achieve it. Maybe you don’t even get it right the next time, but like life cooking can be hard work. You are going to make mistakes cooking, just like you are going to make mistakes in life. It is the strive for perfection and the pride we take in both cooking and our daily lives, that makes us better people. The cooking shows tend to edit out the mistakes. We live in the real world where mistakes happen. Perhaps they should have a show that teaches common blunders and how to recover from them. Even better they can show us how not to make them in the first place. Cooking is good for us as it also makes us clean. With so much modern technology and office jobs, many of us have forgotten what real work is. We all hate cleaning those dishes, but its good for us. It shows humility. No one in the kitchen is above the dish washer. It lets us appreciate attention to detail and have pride in every aspect of what we do. So next time you make a mistake cooking your dish, or are tired of washing the dishes, think about it as just one aspect of striving towards perfection. It is one step towards mastering the art of cooking. It is one step towards becoming a better person.
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