3/27/23
I inadvertently forgot to mention in my book that my mom
always put MSG in her cooking. It was a normal practice then and we were
perfectly fine with it. This totally slipped my mind while I was writing my
book because I have stopped using MSG
since having my own family because ot the bad publicity during those times.
These days, I like watching you tube videos on cooking. Food
vloggers like Mark Weins and Luke Martin, FoodieMommaPH, and RV Manabat.
Watching them enables me to travel and enjoy different cuisines without leaving
my seat. RV Manabat, a Filipino, from Binan, Laguna who has studied in
different culinary schools abroad shares that one of the best learning comes
from eating in the many street food stalls in Bangkok, Thailand. These places
frequented by locals show the implicit self-learned secrets to cooking mostly
garnered from family grandmothers and elders. The de oido styles of cooks here
are educational in their simplicity and authenticity. And anybody eating in
these nondescript places are free to learn.
With the rise of google search, it has become so much easier
to cook many different dishes. By the click of a button, recipes and actual cooking
gives one the knowhow to whatever one wants to know. I have also discovered
that one becomes adept at this craft not by reading recipes but by actually
cooking. In time one develops the skill to know that even the feel of the ladle
signals the doneness of the dish one is cooking. All the senses, sight, smell, feel,
hearing all contributes to this ability.
The more one cooks,
the more one enjoys cooking, and the more one gets better at it. In time, one
realizes that this tastes so much better and cheaper than eat outs or take
outs. During these times of high inflation, this is invaluable.
