Olaff Meintjes
Johannesburg
all about cooking
Food is one of the most diverse items to choose from. Cut into segments, the topic of food is endless.
Think about it, bread, pastry, hot, cold, big, small all different shapes, tastes and sizes. So much to choose from, one would not know where to begin, if you can take all edible products and study the art of cooking it, there should be a special heaven for it.
The hospitality trade never has a dull moment; everything is amplified to a certain high pitched adrenalin rush. A good natural choice of substance and so many feed off of it in so many different ways, from what lands on the plate to the one who cleans it.
If each person made a list of things they deal with on a daily basis, everyone’s would be different and it’s those things that make each person superior in their own field, no matter how big or small and that’s what separates us from each other.
Mine is cooking and each family or group of people living together has one person that likes to or has to prepare the meals. With this, your about to read, I will inspire those who love food and motivate those who see it as a unpleasant task.
As all great things cooking is the same. Music being composed into a work of art that moves an individual, that breathes life into your soul and so does a great meal, it puts a person in a amusing state of satisfaction , oh and the numbness and laziness that follows after you’ve eaten ,” it puzzles some folks “is the body using extra energy to start digesting, that’s all.
Cooking a meal can be as simple as slapping something together and sliding it on a plate or as integrate and complex as studying the change of molecules and atoms that it’s made up of into another form.
It can be very gripping as you can imagine, to see how it changes and to know that the only one in control is you and only you can determine the outcome