Dear Humans,

Sometimes when I’m cooking dinner I like to pretend I’m hosting my own cooking show. I think about what lines I would say, and I develop a cooking persona–lovable, knowledgeable, cool.

It seems silly, but doing so makes the cooking a little more fun. Otherwise it can be a lot of drudge work–cut this, clean up this, burn this because I forgot about it on the back burner.

Most of all, being my own food show host makes me pay closer attention to what I’m doing. And when we look closely and really think about what we’re doing, it’s almost impossible to be bored.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck