When I began to blog, I also started photographing simpler dishes,
for friends who weren't taught to cook at home and didn't spend swathes
of their childhood sitting on the kitchen counter chatting to Mum and
co-incidentally witnessing dozens of techniques and orders-of-cooking.
"It's like computers," I explained to one friend, who was frustrated by
his own ignorance. "If you just grow up doing it, like we did, then it's
simple and easy, but actually there are all these little things you
learnt along the way. And if you didn't, it feels like there's so much
to learn, and you're just expected to know, and no-one's teaching you."
No-one should be left out. Cooking is a joy.