To be a really good cook can actually be as simple as following a good recipe.

That is my point. If my grandmother gives you her secret, handed down though the family for generations, recipe for, say, the best green tomato chow I have ever tasted, why would you change it? And, worse, when people gag, why would you then laud it and say how much better it was after you totally messed it up?

Seven of ten plates of the spaghetti last night were returned to the kitchen with over half of the slop still on the plates.

I say oregaNO MORE!