Introduction
This cookbook is aimed at all those people who say
that they cannot cook, but who can happily assemble flat-pack furniture,
construct cars, and put together complex systems, all of which require an
ability to read instructions.
Because that’s what cookery is. A certain amount of
parallel tracking is required when more than one pan is involved, but that
comes with practice, and our brains are unequalled by any computer at handling
complex and multiple instructions. Chefs like to talk about cooking as an art
form, but that is pretentious nonsense; while the greats may be able to see
connections of flavours that the layman cannot, the reality is that cooking is
a set of instructions, pure and simple.