Progress and Perfection
This article was posted by Raw news bot on July 30th, 2010 and has been 150 views.This article was syndicated from Choosing Raw.
One of my favorite mantras–stolen from my friend Gil–is “progress, not perfection.” It’s a handy little proverb for people like me, who are perfectionists about everything, and it’s especially helpful to share with clients who are trying to improve their dietary habits. Most of my clients are perfectionists too, and they tend to envision the journey toward healthy living as a one-hundred-meter dash toward a spotless finish line. The reality is that improved eating habits take time and practice, and that living well doesn’t mean living like a saint. I’d also apply the “progress, not perfection” mantra to culinary skill. Six years ago, when I graduated college, I knew nothing about cooking. I could make sandwiches, salads, and pasta, and that was about it. I gazed at Chloe–who has always had a knack in the kitchen, an effortless talent for composing meals in her head–with envy and awe. Now I’m hardly a Deb Madison or Matthew Kenney, but I like to think that I’ve accumulated some talent in the kitchen in recent years. The single most important lesson I’ve learned is that there’s no magical talent that good cooks have and other people don’t (though I do think that professional chefs have extraordinarily fine-tuned palates, and they’re better at conceptualizing dishes than most people). Cooking well, like most life skills, is simply a matter of practice, persistence, and fe[...]
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