pleasurecooker.com™

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The concept is simple … a small site dedicated to the love and enjoyment of cooking.

Hi, I’m J.Ho and this is pleasurecooker.com

First off … I dedicate this site to my parents, who never made me eat anything I didn’t like.

It all started in March of 2005. I sent a quick e-mail out to a small list of friends and co-workers on a recent discovery of a simple, yet unique way of preparing cauliflower. Chopped, seasoned and roasted. The institution was born. The response was incredible. Everyone loved it and asked me for more and more ideas. Shortly thereafter I began emailing out recipe ideas on a weekly basis and eventually added drink recipes, music reviews and downloads. Every now and then I’d miss a week. I usually would get quite a few e-mails or people stopping me in the hallway to ask me why it wasn’t done.

The recipes I send out are from a variety of sources: cookbooks, friends, family, the Internet, food TV shows or my own boundless imagination. All are tried and tested by me and given my somewhat valuable seal of approval. Almost all recipes I share have been tweaked somewhat to my own tastes. I believe recipes are simply templates and aren’t always meant to be followed. Change them around, mix things up and you’ll never know what you’ll discover.

Nearly a year later the e-mail list has grown from about twenty people to over 200. A good portion of that list are people I don’t even know. There have been plenty of times when a friend would send me four or five e-mail addresses of their friends and ask for them to be added to the list. Well, it seems like a good time to take this workload off my company’s mail server and place it on the web.

I’ve decided to publish the archive of my recipe e-mailings and continue with the weekly (or whenever I can do it) recipe posts. I’ll also continue to post music suggestions, drink and cocktail recipes, and whatever else may be relative to the core concept. I think it might be a good idea to post reviews on cookbooks, kitchen tools and restaurants as well. I’m also inviting friends that share my cooking interests to publish their own posts on the site. Reader comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy this site and take away something of value from our posts. Feel free to share some of your own thoughts.

Cheers,

J.Ho

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