Chef Michael Ruhlman has got a really great post on his blog about how there’s an incorrect perception that we’re all too stupid to cook.    Through the media, we’re told that if you’re going to cook something it should be from a bag or in a box because cooking something from scratch is just too hard and should be left to master chefs and the dudes on TV.

His thought is that if we were all shown some of the fundamentals then we’d all see how easy cooking really is.   At the end of his post, he shares a roasted chicken recipe with like 3 steps.  (Will try it this weekend.)

I’m not an idiot.  I know people are busy.  I don’t always feel like making dinner.  And I know a lot of people who simply don’t like to cook.  If I had to knit my own clothes I’d be really bummed.  But the notion that cooking is hard and that it takes a long time and we’re just too stupid to cook is wrong.  And I want people to recognize the truth from the bill of goods they’re being sold.