COOK

Cook. That simple four letter word carries so many meanings from a process of food preparation involving heat; someone who prepares food for eating; to occur, happen, perform, concoct, improvise, why even to falsify or doctor and lastly to ruin one irretrievably as in to cook one's goose! Cook is a very layered word. For the most part cook. create. curate. focuses on the preparation of food even though the implications could be far reaching.

I began to cook when I was about 4 years old at my grandmother's side following her hands-on instruction on how to make cornbread. Her recipe was pretty simple and very similar to the following handwritten recipe of Kathryn Windham Tucker's

image courtesy of the Katheryn Tucker Windham Museum, Selma, Alabama

I am still making cornbread and I don't put sugar in it!

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