So... it only took 2.5 hours of Jacques PEPIN after my first ever "Mange" blog post to inspire me to write another one. No, this is not virgin-esque enthusiasm rearing its head in the form of an eager blogger... No, this is EXACTLY what happens to me daily (and apparently nightly). I was busy minding my business of finishing up my nightly emails, fresh off the inspiration of a newly-created blog, when I began to think about breakfast tomorrow morning. I've spent a ridiculous amount of money lately on eating out in Paris, so I quickly came to the conclusion that I wanted to make an in-house specialty. Would it be Gordon RAMSAY scrambled eggs with mushrooms and vined cherry tomatoes? My old friend Richard's Eggs Benny? Nope, I googled "french omelette preparation" to brush up on the technique and stumbled upon a quick video of Jacques PEPIN preparing a French omelette at the age of 75.
This guy is a beast. He cooks like I do, like only someone can who gets excited to beat an egg. He beats the shit out of the egg too. And then he pours it in the pan, shakes the pan like a maniac, carefully observing the edges of the cooking egg, and 45 seconds later produces an amazing omelette with no added color from improper cooking. Newsflash: If your omelettes have brown on them, the cook (or you) screwed it up.
Watching this guy cook at the age of 75 really proves to me that cooking is something that never gets old. People think it's so simple, and so mindless. But how could Jacques PEPIN grow up in a kitchen (his parents owned a restaurant), cook his whole life, master the art of cooking like few others, and continue to enjoy it well into his age of supposed retirement? Because cooking isn't simple, and it's not mindless. People who think that are lost to the craft of food preparation. To me, it's obvious that most people don't really "get" cooking. I'm just glad that I do... but I'm not glad that watching 75 year old men on my computer keeps me up until almost 3 in the morning.
No comments:
Post a Comment