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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

We boil at different degrees.

Typically, you learn how to cook, but you don't know why. We were looking for a deeper understanding of what was happening to our food as we roasted it, boiled it, grilled it, chopped it, etc. And it turned out, as we began to really say what is cooking, what does it mean to cook, there's a lot of science involved.

Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.

I'm trying to learn how to cook.

Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat.

There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down.

Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she didn't know how, I was shocked.