Perfect vs. Good Enough
20 Oct
Nevertheless, the fast version is terrific, and recalls what, to me, is one of the basic tenets of real cooking in the contemporary world. You can put it this way: “Perfect is the enemy of good enough.” Or you can say, “compromise is essential in practical cooking,” or “I’d rather eat a good version of a dish than sit around and think about the ideal one.” No matter how you put it, this is core to my beliefs.
-Bittman offers something of a manifesto over at the Times’ Diner’s Journal blog, writing about streamlining recipes and this week’s Minimalist column. Go read the whole thing.
