Daily Blague

The Culinarion branch of Portico generates an interesting kind of mail. Every six months or so, I get an email from someone far away, sometimes very far away, thanking me for a recipe. Today, it was a gentleman from the Dominican Republic. Responding to my page on cooking rice, he writes,

Hello:

My congratulations for your instructions.  That is the way all recipes and procedures should be given.  I assume you are a "practical-perfectionist".  I enjoy cooking.  Rice is our main food, we eat rice everyday.  Thanks again.

Letters like this never fail to make my day. But I have to weigh the suggestion that I take up recipe-writing full time against Walrus Pete's cheeky advice at Miss Gostrey's Guide. I had posted a long entry encouraging people to comment. (You can always say "thanks" and leave it at that.) Mr WP was on it in an instant. I can't say I didn't ask for it....