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by Emmagirl wants to leave and not leave... on May 24th, 2007

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What makes someone a good cook? Sometimes even the same recipe tastes different when different people make it. Why?

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  • by goldiemae on June 4th, 2007

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    You can take ten people and have them follow the same recipe, and each will turn out slightly different. The reason for that is, a good cook, even though he or she is willing to share a recipe, may have a secret ingredient that is withheld. Outstanding recipes often remain secret, even in families, and people have been known to carry those secrets to their graves. Look at it this way. If you had an amazing recipe for chocolate chip cookies that everyone raved about, would you be willing to share that recipe? And even if you bowed to pressure, or felt obligated to share it, would you reveal the fact that you toasted the walnuts before you put them in the batter? Just keeping that one little ingredient change to yourself would still leave the top honors to you, and not to the people to whom you shared the recipe. That's my long-winded "take" on your question.

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