Inkleaf's Blog

I’m generally an advocate for a more old-fashioned approach to all things in the kitchen.  Well, let’s step back just long enough to define ‘old-fashioned.’  I don’t mean Dark-Ages-antiquated.  I’m not advocating grinding the wheat myself or leaving porridge simmering over an open fire for days on end, fetching water from a cistern or turning a blind eye to mouse droppings in precious food supplies that I wouldn’t dream of pitching out to the hogs.  I mean the other kind of old-fashioned, where meals are prepared more often from separate ingredients rather than produced whole from a single packet that goes from freezer to microwave.  I believe in chopping vegetables at a cutting board, boiling things in metal pots, and buttering bakeware with actual butter (that spray-on product should be banned, but that’s another topic entirely).  I even believe in the steel wool it takes to then clean all that cookware.  What can I say, dear readers, I’m a product of my upbringing.  But even if I do prefer the laborious process of traditional cooking, I have a fondness for spectacular kitchen technology, particularly when that technology improves everything from the cooking itself to one’s overall health.  I recommend to you: the Sanyo Rice Cooker. 

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