Food heroes

I have just started reading Elizabeth David's 'French Provincial Cooking'.  What an absolute inspiration that woman was!  Born with a silver spoon in her mouth she renounced it all, became an actress and then ran off to Europe with a married man - writing some revolutionary and inspiring cookery books along the way.  More than anyone else she was responsible for educating us into the delights of day to day French and Mediterranean food - kudos I say!!

Even in the introduction she makes sense.  Quoting Escoffier she writes...'two of the most valuable words he ever wrote were these: faites simple.  What a Frenchman intends these words to mean may not be quite the same as what an English cook would understand by them.  They mean, I think, the avoidance of all unnecessary complication and elaboration:  they do not mean skimping the work or the basic ingredients, throwing together a dish anyhow and hoping for the best.  That is the crude rather than the simple approach.'

Buy great ingredients, cook inspirationally and love your food and your life.  Live the dream!