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December 30, 2006
YouTube Cooking School?
I knew there had to be good instructional cooking videos on YouTube. Last time I looked, though, I was looking for Spanish dishes and all that came up were lame videos about cooking done by high school students for their Spanish language class (my online searching skills are abysmal). They were mildly entertaining -- there were some silent bits and confusing bits when the kids didn't have the language skills to explain the recipe. Example of what this would sound like in English: "Here we chop tomatoes and onions. [Extended silence while vegetables are chopped.] The tomatoes and onions have been chopped. Here we add them to the stove. Done! Fantastic! Delicious!"
Anyway, I'm finally reading the book that emerged from The Julie/Julia Project (a very entertaining book, btw, especially since JP is a food-obsessed blogger living in the city), and one of the YouTube links on her newer blog led me to better cooking videos. I have just learned to cook a shoulder of lamb and sole "dore" and Lemon Caper Butter Sauce. Maybe this is how I will finally learn to be a decent cook? Without the Food Network to give me regular Lidia and Alton and Ina installments, I have to get my culinary education somewhere.
Posted by csageday at December 30, 2006 01:32 AM