Developing Your Culinary Intelligence
January 30, 2013
•Emily Murray
•Dallas
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Developing Your Culinary Intelligence
Ask any chef and they’ll say cooking is their passion. They love what they do, but they didn’t become a chef overnight. You may share the same passion, but have never pursued cooking as a career. That doesn’t mean you can’t learn more and develop your culinary intelligence.
Practice, Practice, Practice
Like anything, the only way to get better at something is to practice. Take time to fine-tune your skills, and recipes. Use your family and friends as your taste testers, they’ll give you their honest opinions. Use their feedback and change your recipe or experiment with new ingredients until your recipe is perfected.
Study: Read, Watch and Learn
There are thousands of culinary books out there and networks on TV and the Internet devoted to cooking. Take advantage, read as much as you can. Study recipes and techniques and incorporate them into your regular cooking habits. Follow recipes exactly and you’ll slowly pickup on the techniques that famous chefs use. Taste everything, how do you know if its good if you don’t taste it. After you meet your own approval use your family and friends as taste testers. They’ll recognize the change in recipes and won’t back down when it comes to critiquing your cooking. Aside from taking a private cooking lesson from one of these private chefs reading and studying their moves on TV are the best thing you can do.
Learn From a Professional
If you don’t have the motivation to teach yourself, let someone else teach you. There are many different classes – both professional and amateur – that you can take. Whether it’s a private class or a group, by learning directly from a professional chef you’ll be able to fine tune your skills. Your education doesn’t just happen in the classroom, take your new found knowledge home and practice, practice, practice.
Developing your culinary knowledge and becoming a cook is a great thing to do for the passionate cook. It’s something that you can do forever. With the will to learn, and an open mind your culinary knowledge has the potential to be endless.
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