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| Lookbook Cookbook combines fashion and food. |
WORDS | Thea Halpin
I never had the pleasure of learning to
cook. I don’t have any of those memories
of peering over the bench top as my mother prepared her ‘secret recipe’ apple
pie that had been passed down mother-to-daughter for generations. I possess no quirky age-old kitchen tricks
that my grandmother taught as a youngster, that I now proudly employ in my
kitchen adventures. Not that cooking
didn’t happen in my house. My mother
continues to slave away in the kitchen every afternoon, accompanying her
kitchen movements with a verbal commentary of just how much she hates cooking
for our family (which consists of one vegetarian, one sometimes-vegan, a celiac
and a picky 12 year-old.) Cooking was
not often a communal pursuit in my family.
Thus, much of my culinary knowledge has been acquired through the
quasi-parent of Generation Y: the Internet.
It is amazing the wealth of knowledge that
can be accessed with a simple Google search.
Last week I learnt how to remove the skin of almonds: sit them in hot
water for less than a minute and the skin will slide right off. The week before eHow taught me how to steam
vegetables in the microwave: in a bowl loosely covered with cling wrap, cooked
for two minutes in the microwave. You may
be sometimes led astray when engaging more obscure cooking authorities (as I
learned in The Great Flaming Toaster Incident of 2012). However, when used tactfully the Internet is
your own personal Martha Stewart!
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