The twilight of one year, the dawn of the following lend themselves to balance sheets, palmares and good resolutions. In culinary matters, here is the opportunity of introspection on our practices, our limits and our failed in particular. Small and big sleeves, sometimes stings to the cocashe, but all encouraging. Because “failure is the foundation of success”, according to the famous Formula of LAO Tseu recessed, in this form or in another, school benches to sports enclosures, competition orals to casting sessions, Hiring interviews with personal development coaching sessions …
Easy to say, much less to admit after an umpteenth fiasco with meringue, Mayo, caramel, puff pastry, blown or risotto. For some, the success, the wonderful and the perfect will forever remain pastry appellations, in no case the result of an individual performance.
Nobility, bravery and humility
No matter, since satisfaction can come in another way. There is in the revenue missed a form of nobility, bravery, humility, that the cook dedicated difficult to detect. “We are unfortunately inclined to judge our mistakes like mistakes. And because we do not like failures, we live too often as humiliations,” explains the psychotherapist Isabelle Filliozat in good in his cuisine (JC Lattès, 2012) . A book including the subtitle – “When the preparation of a meal becomes an inner adventure” – can make yellow smile like a Béarnaise messed up. “However, the lattice continues, mistakes help to deep understanding and are sources of creativity. Each of them brings us closer to perfection because it brings us information.”
That the crash generates creativity, this is a principle illustrated in our culinary history. Actual or maintained by the legend, the stories of happy bourdes abound, which would have given birth to Cambrai’s nonsense, at the chocolate ganache, at the missed cake (eponymous of a circular mold), to the jam of milk and, of course, At the unmissable tart of young lady tatin. Grace is thus made to the serendipity, this conjunction of chance and intuition that sublimates the accident or the stunning. Even if everyone does not have the chance to leave his name to posterity with a paste impossible to spread, a collapsed pie, a punchy fish or a Pavlova raplapla.
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