Is writing and cooking like walking and chewing gum? Obviously it is for me at least!
A frequently used derogatory reference when I was growing up - eons ago before more graphic terms became common usage - was "he is too dumb to walk and chew gum at the same time." The implication being that not only could the maligned victim not multitask, but he or she couldn't even multitask at two such fundamental activities.
I thought about this as I stood in my kitchen sadly surveying the potatoes I had just boiled for potato salad. I actually can't remember the last time I made a potato salad - it is that low carb thing - but I wanted to make something for our strata barbecue and I did not want to make yet another green salad or roasted vegetables - my usual contributions.
Into my mind popped the fantastic potato salad my friend Jan made during our Reunion Weekend on Vancouver Island, and the thought would not go away no matter how much I tried to reject it. Well, potato salad it would have to be. And it would have to be the perfect potato salad. I still have not got over that drive for perfection although I had better work harder at it, as you will see.
