Chicago-born, living in Virginia

I have been learning to cook over the past few years via cookbooks and online recipes, but now I’m ready to keep a more detailed record of what I make. I’ll be choosing recipes at random from one of my fifteen or so cookbooks and cooking them weekly.

I am a chemist at heart and practice, and cooking is a way for me to use those scientific methods and techniques to make something consumable and not get poisoned (hopefully).

During my cooks, I hope to learn more about the science behind the recipes I make to better understand its nuances.

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