About me

I'm a male senior citizen and have been fascinated with cooking since a young boy growing up on a farm in Ohio. in the 1940s and 50s. As a young adult in Texas in the 1960's I desired to train to be a chef, but it didn't work out. So all of my adult life I have pursued the hobbies of cooking for friends and collecting over 400 cookbooks. Baking and unique desserts are my favorite areas, but using unusual spice combinations in all areas of cooking fascinates me. I'm fortunate to live in the Dallas area to have access to many ethnic supermarkets, great places to buy spices and exotic ingredients.

Cooking Influences

I was influenced by my mother, an old fashioned country cook on the farm during the 1940s and 1950s. She baked the best homemade bread, never measured the ingredients, strictly by feel, using flour ground from wheat we grew on the farm. She was a perfectionist at baking. She loved doing it to share with those she loved, and that love rubbed off on me.