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Nov. 30th, 2011 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bobcatmoranI am super-excited for tomorrow. I got a ticket to see Christopher Kimball (head of America's Test Kitchen, Cook's Illustrated, and all that jazz) and Jacques Pepin (I grew up watching him and Julia Child along with my mom) at the 92nd St. "Y." I'm also totally more pumped about Pepin than Kimball, not just because there's a connection there to learning to cook with my mom (there's that connection to some extent with Kimball, too, since Mom was a subscriber to Cook's Illustrated from the beginning), but because, frankly, I respect him a chef way more. Kimball's really more of a businessman.
Plus, from what I've seen of Christopher Kimball on TV, read in his books, and heard from people who've gone to signings, he can be kind of a jerk.
Anyway, I think it'll be interesting to see the two talk together about cooking and whatnot, since they have such different approaches. America's Test Kitchen's whole thing is based around, "This is how you make the best [insert foodstuff here], and here's EXACTLY how you do it. If you deviate from this recipe at all, you're doing it wrong." Whereas Jacques Pepin is much more about "here's a technique, and here's how you can apply it, and here's some variations you can try." I've been watching his latest show, "More Fast Food My Way," which is not about how to make hamburgers but rather more about how you can totally cook some amazing things and eat very well without having to spend forever making dinner. And there's a bunch of stuff that I think would give Christopher Kimball an aneurysm. Whereas America's Test Kitchen would be like, "Add one tablespoon of olive oil, which we have preciesely measured out here," More Fast Food My Way is along the lines of, "Add a bit of olive oil, [grabs bottle, pours in until it looks right] like so."
The only problem is that it's on a Thursday night, in the city, so I quite possibly won't be getting back until well past 11:00 (aka "Aw, crap, I have to be at work in eight hours o'clock"). But I think it'll be worth it.
On a completely different note, I am not super-excited that I no longer have internet at home.
Plus, from what I've seen of Christopher Kimball on TV, read in his books, and heard from people who've gone to signings, he can be kind of a jerk.
Anyway, I think it'll be interesting to see the two talk together about cooking and whatnot, since they have such different approaches. America's Test Kitchen's whole thing is based around, "This is how you make the best [insert foodstuff here], and here's EXACTLY how you do it. If you deviate from this recipe at all, you're doing it wrong." Whereas Jacques Pepin is much more about "here's a technique, and here's how you can apply it, and here's some variations you can try." I've been watching his latest show, "More Fast Food My Way," which is not about how to make hamburgers but rather more about how you can totally cook some amazing things and eat very well without having to spend forever making dinner. And there's a bunch of stuff that I think would give Christopher Kimball an aneurysm. Whereas America's Test Kitchen would be like, "Add one tablespoon of olive oil, which we have preciesely measured out here," More Fast Food My Way is along the lines of, "Add a bit of olive oil, [grabs bottle, pours in until it looks right] like so."
The only problem is that it's on a Thursday night, in the city, so I quite possibly won't be getting back until well past 11:00 (aka "Aw, crap, I have to be at work in eight hours o'clock"). But I think it'll be worth it.
On a completely different note, I am not super-excited that I no longer have internet at home.
