The flavor created when cooking with Coke is more intense because of the carbonation. It's also sweeter.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

When I came to again—parched, pain rampaging through my intestines—I was in my bed. The little bedside lamp illuminated two anxious faces, my sister’s and Mrs. P.’s (the latter looking a shade guilty, I noted, no doubt realizing that it was effectively through her negligence that I had been forced to poison myself) [. . .] “I think he has eaten many kidney beans.” Mrs. P. shuddered. “Many kidney beans not cooked.” “Beans!” I cried again deliriously. “Oh for heaven’s sake,” Bel said. “Charles, listen carefully, did you soak the beans before you cooked them?” “Of course I didn’t soak them,” I said. “What are you talking about?

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

A lot of it was lifestyle. There's an affinity for cooking and culinary arts as well as cycling and the outdoors. We also found that it's not just about price: Customers care about quality and how these solutions fit into someone's life.

Well, it took me twenty-seven years, as long as I've been cooking.