Monday, November 06, 2023
Let Others Go Their Cranky Ways
Elizabeth David (1913-1992), French Provincial Cooking (New York: Penguin Books, 1999), p. 191:
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As everybody knows, there is only one infallible recipe for the perfect omelette: your own. Reasonably enough; a successful dish is often achieved by quite different methods from those advocated in the cookery books or by the professional chefs, but over this question of omelette making professional and amateur cooks alike are particularly unyielding. Argument has never been known to convert anybody to a different method, so if you have your own, stick to it and let others go their cranky ways, mistaken, stubborn and ignorant to the end.
