I am not a chef, nor do I play one on TV, but I have always felt that if I were going to criticize them, I had a responsibility to learn to cook like one. Despite what every 5 minute easy meals cookbook tells you, cooking is hard. To be good, you have to do the Malcolm Gladwell thing, and put in the 10,000 hours.
Thank Mike. Fun read. I’m into that myth of chain smoking while cooking, I think you are onto something.