Saturday, 18 April 2020

The Cottage and Cookery - Part Three

When a person is perfectly capable of doing a job satisfactorily without assistance, and possibly even without supervision, that is a highly efficient situation, as long as the person is satisfied with the job.

The preferences of extroverts are likely to give introverts indigestion.

The preferences of introverts are likely to give extroverts cabin fever.

Do you prefer easy to prepare meals of readily available, seasonal ingredients or do you prefer to search for gourmet extravagances or mass produced convenience foods?

Do you have a tendency to overeat?

Do you often have less than enough to eat?

Have you ever attempted to feed too many people with not enough food?

Is cookery something you intrinsically enjoy or is it something you only do for money or out of reluctant necessity.

What do you know about cooking in medieval Europe?

How were meal times around the world transformed as a consequence of the Columbia exchange?

Which foods are native to the area in which you currently live?

Do you think much about religious meanings associated with meals?

Why do people give meanings to food beyond its nutritional aspects?

How do you find out whether someone has a food allergy or food intolerance?

What do you know about food preservation?

What do you know about food preparation?

What do you know about fermentation?

Do you know much about food drying?

Do you store a wide variety of dried foods?

Do you prefer you meals to be as natural as possible?

Do you prefer whole foods as much as possible?

Do you do your own pickling?

Do you make various preserves?

Do you have an efficient approach to making and using frozen foods?

Are you familiar with various types of food storage?

Do you know enough about food safety?

There is much to learn from food history.

Have you ever made stone soup?

How can you prove you are simultaneously doing enough to meet your own needs and the needs of other people?

Do you usually associate cookery with meeting needs?