Culinary Skills Gifts

'Yes, it takes a little while to learn to handle chopsticks!'

'Are you sure you washed this salad?'

'I just need enough to send my Dad to cookery lessons!'

'Now you tell me the blender has a lid!'

"The trick to this particular dish is not letting your mother mess it up."

'It's beans OR toast, not beans ON toast.'

'No need for the Fancy Dress - you've only boiled me an egg.'

'Who ordered the shark?.' '

'So. . . How is it? Too salty? Too spicy?'

'What do you mean you're not hungry?'

"My compliments to the can opener."

"You may think these things are harmless...but in inexperienced hands, my spices can mess you up!"

"I've learnt to preserve food through salting or smoking to break the 'Feast or Famine' cycle. . ."

'Put an egg in the bowl and beat it with the whisk.'

Tartine

"I was with you right up to the cumin."

"Your food didn't melt, young man... this is the soup course."

"The menu just says fried fish, but may I give you a more compelling, surprisingly lyrical description?"

"Boil, toil and trouble, I wish I'd never started this risotto."

"Waitress, have you smoked salmon..?"

Counting ribs

"Just bring me something that's going to look good on social media."

On August 14, 2011 at app. 2:00 p, Derek Winslow made scientific history by converting an item of the animal kingdom into an item of the plant kingdom.

"Behold! As I transform this family size frozen lasagna into a meal for one."

Squirrels Stockpiling Mulling Spices for Winter

"Monsieur, si vous plaît. I'm sure I ordered the fusilli and not the Fusilier."

'This might be the common ground we've been looking for.'

"When I was your age. I was really smelly."

The wonderful world of cheese.

"The chef is going to need more than just your ‘compliments’ tonight … he’s in one of his moods."

'Sorry sir, we've run out of parmesan cheese.'

"Even the waiters here are organic."

"States of tofu"

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

Ice Cream Surgeon