I’m an excellent cook – you can ask my friends, my family, anyone. But it wasn’t always the case.
When I was just beginning my culinary journey, I thought cooking from recipes made you ‘uncreative’. I was very keen to experiment, but unfortunately, my experiments usually ended badly. Chewy steaks, runny soups, pots of curry that were anything but a proper curry – name a dish, and I probably failed at it. Spectacularly.
It all changed when I picked up my first cookbook. Cooking from recipes, I immediately realised, wasn’t ‘uncreative’; if anything, it allows you to develop your personality as a chef. As I got better and better, my library of cookbooks grew bigger and bigger until I had no more space on my bookshelf. A couple of years ago, I had to move – and so I had to let some of my cookbooks go. Back then, I wished I had my entire library of cookbooks in one place. Luckily, there’s ckbk.
