Cooking has been a relatively new interest of mine.
Whenever I get the opportunity to cook and experiment with new ingredients, I go ahead and do so. The dishes may or may not taste good, but at least I’ll know for the future.
I remember talking to a friend one day and he told me something that really simplified my view on cooking.
He said,
“Cooking is like art. The food itself is your blank canvas. Your herbs, spices, and seasonings are your different colored paints, so to speak.”
A very good way to look at it that way.
Similarly, on a podcast show, the host said that cooking is like alchemy. Which to me, makes a little bit less sense, but I knew what he was trying to say.
And I’m sure he knows what he’s talking about too because he seems to have a good amount of knowledge when it comes to food and cooking.
Recently, the host had a professional chef on his show and at one point, they were talking about some of their pet peeves when it comes to cooking.
I think it was the host who said that he doesn’t like it when cooks take an existing recipe, add some extra ingredients, and claim that the new recipe is theirs now.
He also added that dumping in extra ingredients won’t necessarily make the food taste better. If you have too much flavor, you’re not going to taste every single one of them.
It’s all about keeping things simple.
That’s just the way I like to keep my emails. Short (relatively) and simple.
No need for distracting email designs, or sophisticated language.
Just plain-text, casual emails.
As for what to write in the emails, that’s the stuff I talk about, in detail, in my book How to Become an Email Titan.
Here’s the link to the sample chapters of the book.