The pedant in the kitchen
By: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Guardian
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Cookery; Cookery -- Humor
Genres: Humor.
First sentence: I am a late-onset cook.
Description: The Pedant's ambition is simple. He wants to cook tasty, nutritious food; he wants not to poison his friends; and he wants to expand, slowly and with pleasure, his culinary repertoire. A stern critic of himself and others, he knows he is never going to invent his own recipes (although he might, in a burst of enthusiasm, occasionally increase the quantity of a favourite ingredient). Rather, he is a recipe-bound follower of the instructions of others.