What a shame my culinary curiosity was almost non-existent in my youth.\u00c2\u00a0 The last few years I’ve been more interested in food and how to prepare it.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m really more of a baker than a cook because I really prefer to mix everything together, stick it in the oven, do something else for how ever many minutes, take it out to cool and find my work is almost done.\u00c2\u00a0 With the new house I’ve been more interested in cooking than baking.\u00c2\u00a0 I bought new pots and pans and have certainly had my trials cooking with gas instead of electric.<\/p>\n
I began watching Top Chef<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 when season 1 was nearly finished and thus began my love affair with food reality television.\u00c2\u00a0 Before long followed The Next Food Network Star<\/em> season 3 (honestly, I wanted Amy Finley to win before I even knew she had a corgi), Kitchen Nightmares<\/em> (though I really don’t want to know what’s in those refrigerators) and Hell’s Kitchen <\/em>(mostly seen in reruns).\u00c2\u00a0 Admittedly, I can only learn so much about cooking and flavors from these shows.\u00c2\u00a0 They’ve given me a new appreciation for what happens after I order food in a restaurant.<\/p>\n Since my earlier tally<\/a> I’ve been reading like a fiend.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the books I’m\u00c2\u00a0presently reading\u00c2\u00a0is Heat <\/em>by Bill Buford.\u00c2\u00a0 He goes to extremes to learn how to really cook.\u00c2\u00a0 Buford works for free in a New York three-star restaurant, eventually learns Italian and\u00c2\u00a0travels to Italy.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m about half way through the book.\u00c2\u00a0 His misadventures are relayed with humor.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re a foodie this book may not be enjoyable since it’s focused more on working in a restaurant than about the food.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s answered my question though of how all those reality tv contests can work without timers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a shame my culinary curiosity was almost non-existent in my youth.\u00c2\u00a0 The last few years I’ve been more interested in food and how to prepare it.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m really more of a baker than a cook because I really prefer to mix everything together, stick it in the oven, do something else for how ever… Continue reading Bring On The Heat!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-heat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}