Originally Posted by
Sweet Willie
You must be an ex or current chef with quite a repertoire of ablilities or your tastes are limited and you cook 'in this limited range' well, I'm guessing the latter. I too consider myself a good cook but I wouldn't think that I can cook on the same level as (insert your chef of haute cusiine) or as well as the chef in some of the 'down n dirty' ethnic hole in the wall type places we go.
at home, we cook extremely well, in a pretty sophisticated manner, and in many styles. however:
we have a number of friends with whom we socialize that are in the food,the wine, and the service industry. it forever amazes me as to how much better they cook than we do.
i also think the most difficult dishes to recreate are the ethnic hole in wall dishes.