I love good food. As a young husband and father, I had visions of coming home to a multinational restaurant, where any night of the week I might be presented with spaghetti Bolognese, Moo Goo Gai Pan, Hungarian potato dumplings, peaches in brandy, challah bread, or boeuf bourguignon. The reality was that, to make this fantasy come true, I could either ask my wife to stop working as a nurse and stop taking care of the children, or I could learn to cook.I did learn to cook and found that not only is it not too difficult - it's fun! You just need to follow directions and not be intimidated. You'll make a lot of mistakes, but most will still be edible. I collected a lot of cookbooks in the process and eventually realized that most of them are either written for women or aimed at expert chefs. I could not find an elementary, yet interesting, cookbook written for men whose professional lives do not center on food (unless it was for back yard barbecues). So here is the cookbook I would have liked to have when I was learning to cook: E FACILE - an Italian phrase meaning, "It's easy." And it is!
