Cooking Languange

[Jenny A]

My personal, special cooking language includes such words as "burn", overcook", undercook", "complete nightmare" and, "how the hell did you manage that?"

My cooking sucks!

Glad I have no plans to be a wife.

I cook because I like to cook. It doesn't have much to do with being a wife these days.

But I didn't have any problem with "burn," "overcook," "overcook," complete nightmare," or "how the hell did you manage that." My language barrier has mostly been in restaurants. --at least in English speaking countries. I do remember hopping up and down with my hands up over my ears to convince an Italian butcher that I knew I was buying rabbit. He was very good to me in the following days and I remember pork loin rolled around prosciutto, a cheese I couldn't identify, and mushroom I couldn't identify either. He was sure I would like it and I did.

Oh and the grocery in London the last trip was funny. We stayed way out in Barking which is very ethnic. British English with a foreign accent on top was harder than Italian or French for us. Where is the soy sauce was not a question we could get an understandable answer to, though we found it next to the ketchup eventually.