Recently I’ve been cooking lunch instead of buying sandwiches at work partly to save money and partly to eat fresher foods. Eating fresh does make a difference and real foods have quite a different taste to those with additives and colourings. Also having to create different recipies each day is a way of discovering new combinations. I haven’t as yet used any cook books although I may at some point.
However with all of this cooking, it’s made me think how we know which foods we can eat and how many need to be cooked first. I mean who, for example, saw a mushroom growing up from the earth and thought that could be eaten? It’s a risky business because some foods are highly posionous! I wonder how many people have died in order for us to know what we can eat and what we can’t.
Also, are some recipies really pure chances?! With me they probably are! How do we get some really odd combinations which taste very nice? I really fancy smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast but how did we ever come up with that combination?
Also, what about foods created by man such as bread or pasta? How did these combinations come about? Some by trial and error I expect. I am thinking about cooking some pasta for lunch! I haven’t had pasta for work lunch in a while!
