Question:“On the first dish you cook”
On the first dish you cook
A first dish does not have to taste good. It has to reach the plate finished. Fewer than three ingredients and one flame are enough.
Three descend. Make the same one three times. On the third, the hands know.
- Egg fried riceEdible even when scorched, and done in one pan.
- Doenjang-jjigae, soybean paste stewWater, paste, tofu, and the order. The paste does the rest.
- Tomato pastaThe time it takes to boil the noodles becomes the kitchen’s first clock.
Prometheus gave the fire. Cooking, people taught themselves.