Let this be known before we begin: I am a terrible cook. I overboil, I fry too long and I churn much too hard. Now mind you, I like to tell myself(and occasionally others) that I possess pretty extraordinary cooking talents. Here's the real deal: I fucking suck. But in the skill of baking, there is hope. I love to bake sweet delicious pastries and sugary desserts from crisp apple and flavorful sweet potato to tangy lemon meringue pies. It's something about the process of watching a delicious bite of heaven being created by your very hands that just mesmerizes me. It's an art form really. Here's my dilemma: some folks don't really consider baking a plush red velvet cake or a succulent peach cobbler to be cooking. In fact some skilled cooks and chefs look down on us bakers of the world. How do we get our point across so that we will be taken serious? Put a Mrs. Field's at every other street corner? Establish a union for Bakers Squares everywhere? No. We bake our little hearts out is what we do and we get better. We show the 'real cooks' that baking is just as difficult as sauteeing onions or mincing a chicken, because baking isn't for pansies. It's an art form.
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