Men's Kitchen. 3rd Edition

Cooking is a creative pursuit, and therefore the most masculine of all. To rephrase a well-known saying, one could say: “We are what we cook, and how we cook it.” While sticklers approach the cooking process with as much meticulousness as they can muster—planning every detail of the menu in advance and buying all the necessary ingredients in the right quantities—artistically inclined people prefer to create by intuition, taking the first recipe they like and… immediately altering it as they see fit. After all, it doesn’t really matter that the right ingredients happened to be missing from the refrigerator this time. Hazelnuts can be used instead of walnuts, eggplant instead of zucchini, and an artist-chef can prepare a fruit sauce instead of a vegetable one. What an original idea—and the result may turn out perfectly!