I must be the last one on the web to have figured this out. But just in case I was next to last: A fun way to surf food blogs is to go to Taste spotting the food related eye candy web site from Jean Aw and friends. Anyone can submit an image for review. If the editors like it, it goes to the front of the queue. If connections were fast, visual web browsing would be the way to surf.…

Right now I can cook from recipes. That’s not quite the cook I wish I were. Some cooks don’t need recipes. They look at the fridge, at the pantry, and thirty minutes later there is something great at the table. How do they do it? Practice, they tell me. Necessary but not sufficient, I discover. Encyclopedic knowledge is needed in cooking. Should I boil or fry asparagus? How many saffron twigs for two cups of rice?…