All this talk of cooking is making me hungry!

Silly me…

Monday night when I was sitting down to start the work I didn’t do over our long holiday break, I realize that I mixed up the readings and read this Elbow assignment last week. Silly me; Hopefully I’ll be somewhat of a pro on this topic... key word there being hopefully. So here it is.

I love to cook. I cook all the time. When I was living in State College, I would say I cooked [dinner] for my roommates and friends..meh.. 4 out of the 7 days of the week [Sunday thru Wednesday, while Thursday thru Saturday was left to dining out – aka 2am “drunk food” from Bell’s Greek Pizza after the bars]. So last Thanksgiving the other cook in the apartment – I’ll call her Jane – and I decided we were going to hold a classic Thanksgiving dinner for 20 of our friends and make just about anything you can think of on this holiday’s menu: mashed potatoes, dry and wet stuffing, cranberry sauce, sweet corn, baked corn, green beans, green bean casserole, warm bread, apple pie, peanut butter pie, blueberry pie, salad, glazed carrots, a pumpkin roll and, of course, the star of the show… a 21lb turkey glazed with a rosemary-sage rub. Yum! I think I’m ready for Thanksgiving now! But anywho…

My point is – the art of cooking includes interactions no matter what you’re making. That rosemary-sage rub wouldn’t have tasted [or smelled] so good had we’d left out the rosemary or sage. Or the mashed potatoes wouldn’t have tasted delicious we’d left out the butter and milk. Or cereal wouldn’t taste as good without the milk. To get a reaction you need interaction, and I believe that’s what Elbow talking about. To make a paper, article, writing, etc. have that sweet aroma you need to incorporate some other type of “spice” to, well, spice things up… and to have something to read! Whether it would be a play on words, talking to yourself, or writing down a bunch of nonsense until you get it right, doing something other than working with a base, I believe, will help in the writing process itself and help in the creation of a very yummy piece.

Maybe you’ve already have figured this out [which is great!] or maybe Elbow’s theory was just a little extra push that helped put the icing on the cake… with a cherry ontop!