On Cooking

"Mere facility, of course, is no more a guarantee of good taste in cooking than it is in music; but without it, nothing good is possible at all. Technique must be acquired, and, with technique, a love of the very process of cooking. No artist can work simply for results; he must also like the work of getting them. Not that there isn't a lot of drudgery in any art ~and more in cooking than in most~ but that if a man has never been pleasantly surprised at the way custard sets or flour thickens, there is not much hope of making a good cook of him."

~Father Capon