While we're on the subject of food...

...and I'm waiting for the Excedrin to kick this headache off the porch, I thought I'd talk about How I Cook.  It won't take long, because it's all pretty simple.    My mother cooked (of course--or we'd have been eating out of cans) and her friends cooked (some had maids who also cooked) so the concept of preparing food from scratch was familiar from early on.   I started cooking very early, on the kind of child's stove that isn't made anymore because somebody might get hurt...a little...