On Sun, 9 Oct 2016 15:39:18 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> On 2016-10-09 3:27 PM, sf wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Oct 2016 18:11:07 -0400, Dave Smith
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> On 2016-10-08 6:03 PM, Janet B wrote:
> >>>
> >>> UPS delivered Alton Brown's "Everyday Cook". I really like him and
> >>> love his humor. It's going to be a fun read.
> >>
> >> He is an interesting guy, but he always gave me the impression of being
> >> way to anal. His need for perfection takes the fun out of cooking.
> >
> > I've tried to like him, but I don't. Maybe that's why.
>
>
>
> He does interesting dishes and he has those fun little things to
> demonstrate the process that is going on as the stuff cooks. He is just
> too damned precise. I liked James Barber, the Urban Gourmet, the
> antithesis of Alton Brown. He didn't measure accurately, he could get
> pretty sloppy, but he had interesting dishes and made it fun.

I have cooked a lot of recipes from the FN website, but had trouble
remembering if I've cooked any of his, so I searched. I have two that
are in my recipe folder in the computer and haven't made either one.
I've saved another couple of dozen to Pinterest, but the closest I've
come to following a recipe was to use the all spice ingredient (the
secret flavor that's always missing) for Swedish meatballs and I threw
a steak on wood coals once when caveman style steaks were so popular
last year.


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