Warning: My time cooking in a remote fishing village shifted my whole approach
One side, working with just-caught ingredients made my dishes taste alive. The other side, coming back to a city kitchen felt slow and fake. Do you push for raw experience or stick to polished systems?
Raw experience sounds great until you're the one dealing with it. I once bought a whole fish to feel authentic and spent hours on youtube just to not poison myself. Now I see why my mom stuck to her recipe box.
Your mom had the right idea with that recipe box. Sometimes the most authentic cooking skill is knowing when to admit you’re in over your head with a dead animal on your counter. YouTube tutorials make everything look easy, but real life doesn’t have a skip ad button for the part where you’re just staring at fish guts.
Yeah but that hassle @blakeo57 mentioned is exactly the point. Systems keep you safe, but they can crush the soul of the food. You need a bit of both to make anything good.