This Is The Great Challenge:

One Of The Problems With Writing A Cookbook Is That Recipes Exist In The Moment.

Its Not About Passion. Passion Is Something That We Tend To Overemphasize, That We Certainly Place Too Much Importance On. Passion Ebbs And Flows. To Me, It's About Desire. If You Have Constant, Unwavering Desire To Be A Cook, Then U'll Be A Great Cook.

For Me, Thats One Of The Important Things About Cooking. What Was Good Enough Yesterday May Not Be Good Enough Today.

Cooking Is Not About Convenience And It's Not About Shortcuts. Our Hunger For The Twenty-minute Gourmet Meal, For One-pot Ease And Prewashed, Precut Ingredients Has Severed Our Lifeline To The Satisfactions Of Cooking. Take Your Time. Take A Long Time. Move Slowly And Deliberately And With Great Attention.

With Passion, If You See The First Asparagus Of The Springtime And You Become Passionate About It, So Much The Better, But Three Weeks Later, When You’ve Seen That Asparagus Every Day Now, Passions Have Subsided. What’s Going To Make You Treat The Asparagus The Same? It’s The Desire.