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Jan. 31, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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The Need for Culinary Education — @LionelNation

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Good day.
Good day, my friend.
Well, we're...
You've got a Super Bowl coming up, and...
I'm riveted over this.
Subject matter.
Football is my life.
It moves me.
It moves me beyond anything you can imagine.
It moves me.
Yeah, okay.
You know, before we begin, I want to remind you, I have a newsletter that is coming up today, maybe about 11 o 'clock.
I'm just going through a quick kind of a redo.
It's perfect.
It is scattered.
It is diagrammatic.
It's almost a mosaic.
It's a veritable pastiche, a myriad, a mosaic of individual little orts and morsels of ideas and the like.
And I invite you to read and just be overwhelmed with just a smattering, a spattering, a splatter of various ideological thoughts.
Think of it as an amuse-bouche for the intellect.
I also want you to like this video.
I'm not going to remind you anymore.
It's important and critical that you like this, that you subscribe to the channel, and of course that you hit that little bell so you're notified of new videos and the like, which is critical and important.
You know, I wanted to say something.
And by the way, welcome to our dear friends from the UK, England, North...
Londonium.
Look at this.
We have this.
Where is everybody from, by the way?
Let's start off.
We have South Georgia is with us.
We've got the UK.
We haven't done this in a while.
But let's get an idea of the pastiche, the mirror, the mosaic, the veritable geographic diaspora, so to speak, of you and where you are from.
I'm broadcasting right now, 47 degrees, live from an overcast Hell's Kitchen.
On the west side of Manhattan, we have Ennis, Texas in the house, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Old Seminole Heights, yes, yes, yes, I knew it well, Las Vegas, Flemington, New Jersey, Beacon, New York, Tasmania, Bucks County, PA, Jamestown, Cincinnati, Cotswolds, UK, Cotswolds, UK.
Birmingham, Alabama.
Is the Boutwell on the door ever still there?
That's where I saw my first professional wrestling backstage with Gordon Soley.
Chickamauga, Georgia, New York City.
Pine Bush, New York.
Tahoe.
Home of the Springs.
Washington Heights, New York City.
Clearwater, Pinellas County.
Boise, Idaho.
San Antone, Texas.
Paonia, Colorado.
East Union, Ohio.
East Kentucky.
Orange County, California.
Tahoe.
Portland, Maine.
Must be tough.
Portland, Maine.
Portland, Oregon.
Kansas City, Missouri.
Kansas City, Kansas.
Springfield, Moe.
Lithuania.
Is that beautiful?
Cape Girardeau.
Ah, that's Rush Limbaugh Company.
Country, rather.
Bella Fontaine, Ohio.
Well, welcome, welcome, welcome.
All of you glorious and beautiful.
Cucamonga.
I became aware of something last night that I wanted to bring to your attention.
And I have these...
I don't know what you want to call it.
These moments.
And we have...
Don't ask me how we were on this subject, but we have a friend who is...
They're planning on getting married and very nice young people.
And we were discussing things like the role of the wife.
Remember the old days, the wives had to know how to cook.
And you had to know how to cook.
If you were a wife, you had to be a good wife and you had to cook.
You had to be able to handle the household and do all this stuff.
You, by God, you had to be a wife.
And where would you know how to cook?
Well, maybe your mother showed you, or maybe your grandmother or somebody.
And a lot of people said, well, you know, we're not crazy about that.
Or some men would say, you know what, I like to cook.
Well, you can't do that.
This was a while back, by the way.
This is ancient, what I'm talking about.
So where would you go?
Well, there used to be this thing called, I don't know why they do it, but there used to be this thing called home economics.
Home economics was this wonderful thing that basically allowed folks to learn just certain things.
And we always lament that fact.
We need a home ec course.
That's what we need.
And people talk about this thing called the home ec course.
I don't know anybody who's actually ever taken it, but we always talk about that.
But here is the good news which I want to bring to your attention.
And I just did a video on it which I wanted to share with you.
One of the best things you can say about social media and YouTube in particular is a veritable passel.
The endless stream of videos that are available to teach you how to cook.
To make cooking cool.
And it's one of the greatest things ever.
It's...
Joyous.
Once you get on the algorithm, there's this, I'm watching a fellow now who is a, I love to watch Chinese chefs.
Really good.
There's so many of them.
There's one in the middle in China, somewhere outside with this wok and this, he just, the slicing and the preparation and the mise en place, it's just beautiful.
The making of the meat.
You have to slam the meat down.
You have these little shorts.
You slam it down.
It's fast.
But there's music.
And it's cool.
And it's fun.
And you can learn how to do anything.
And it's okay.
And it's okay.
They give it the imprimatur of cool.
YouTube is going to replace education.
Formal.
School, education.
Everything that you can learn in a school, you can learn on YouTube.
Everything.
Any lecture.
Anything.
The only thing is you do not have the campus life, which I think is so overrated.
It's not even funny.
The conviviation of others as well.
Okay.
This is going to change everything.
Everything you want to learn, you learn on YouTube.
Everything.
Everything.
We have a coffee machine.
Every two hours, you have to descale it.
Don't ask me why.
I'm not even sure what descaling means.
I have no clue.
And I read the instructions.
How do you descale?
Oh, you got this.
I'm reading this.
I don't know how to do this.
And yet, all of a sudden, I found this one fellow who says, well, you know, here's a way to do it that they don't tell you how.
You push this button, push this button at the same time, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And you would have found this nowhere.
It's the greatest, the greatest, the greatest tutorial ever.
Anything you want to know.
You want to know about Watergate?
You want to know about Spinoza?
You want to learn about integral calculus?
You want to learn about...
You want to pass your medical board?
A bar exam, as long as they still have those?
You want to learn about...
There's a wonderful anatomy.
Class with cadavers.
I mean, it's just...
This is the greatest thing in the world.
What do I want to go to a school for?
Why do people go to a school, necessarily, with brick and mortar and getting a dorm so you can move into the dorm so you can get up and go to a class?
Here it is.
If you ever take a bar review class, you've got all the preparations, all the stuff, on a laptop or on an iPad.
But when it comes to cooking, oh my God.
I also know some things too, which is very interesting.
There are some people I know who are a little afraid of cooking for a variety of reasons.
They don't like flames or gas or electric or fire.
They just don't feel good about it, which is good, which is very, very good.
And now...
Because of air fryers, because of a variety of other means of cooking, they're able to take care of themselves.
You would have never had this had you not been able to see this on YouTube.
Now, others I'm sure there is.
Well, I don't watch a lot of others, but this is something.
Everything you want to know.
What would you like to do?
You want to know how to make a pesto sauce?
Watch this.
There is a group.
There is a channel that melts my heart.
I think I told you about this.
Cooking with Nonna.
Italian grandmothers showing you how to make tortelloni or whatever it is.
Italian soul food.
How to make naan.
Bread.
Name it.
And it makes it cool.
Cooking has been unleashed through this.
There is nothing like cooking for yourself.
Your own favorite.
Your stuff.
You made it.
Your way is a feeling of satisfaction.
And in the old days, what would you have done?
What?
Let's say your mother worked.
Let's say your grandma.
You didn't know what to do.
Your friends, you didn't get together.
You just didn't know.
You didn't know.
YouTube changes everything.
I go through these weird things where I think, I want to know about this.
I want to know about lectures about something.
I got to get into it.
If you shut everything down, if there was no TV, no cable, No cable.
Oh, by the way, may I say something?
May I give you a recommendation for a Netflix show?
And I'm not one to necessarily do this.
But it's called You People.
I'm changing subject here just so that you know.
You People, Eddie Murphy, and Jonah...
What's his name?
Jonah who?
Jonah Hill.
And Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
It is...
Listen to this.
Remember something.
From my generation, you would know this.
This is 1967, guess who's coming to dinner?
It's Norman Lear.
It's Maud.
It's everything.
Interracial, interfamilial, interreligious, family, very.
Watch it.
It's the most misleading show.
You're thinking, okay, I know what it is.
No, it's not.
It's very interesting.
One of those movies, one of those shows which inspires Talking.
You know what I mean?
There used to be these things called date movies.
I don't know if anybody goes on dates anymore, but the idea is that you go to the film, and then afterwards you go out to eat, and you talk about it.
It inspires conversation.
Or as we would say in my earlier days, rapping.
We'd have a rap session.
You would rap, you know?
Not music rap, but discuss.
Anyway.
Fantastic.
Watch this.
Fascinating.
On so many levels.
It's one of those shows I would always talk to my hypothetical visitor from outer space.
Okay, speaking of visitors from outer space, which makes absolutely...
No reason whatsoever.
And also, let me throw out Mrs. L's newsletter.
Sign up for hers.
Hers is coming up.
It is a beaut.
It is a beaut.
There it is right there.
But I want to talk to you about a couple of things.
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Alright, my friends.
Now, let me ask you something.
I don't know about you, but I am sometimes a little bit down on the internet, as it were.
It is common to say it's terrible, it's destroying civilization, it's hurting people, it's killing people, it's terrible.
You know what?
Sometimes I think the problems are evident and so forth.
What I am telling you is that what it allows people to do in terms of cooking, or education rather, and cooking is it.
I want to pull people out.
I want to make everybody say this is something that is the most enjoyable, the most fun, and it's something that you have to do.
Don't worry if your mom was a good cook or a bad cook.
Don't worry about your ethnicity.
It does not matter.
There are more tutorials.
And they must start off with, Hi guys!
You always have to start off with, Hi, guys.
Hey, guys.
I want you guys.
You have to say that.
It's no good.
If you have somebody who says, I'm going to show you.
No, no, no.
You've got to say, hi, guys.
It's the signal that this is a legitimate tutorial.
Hi, guys.
Hi, guys.
Okay.
I don't know when it was, but all my life, I could cook.
I don't know.
I don't understand.
Remember, there was an episode.
I'll never forget one time.
It was, I Love Lucy.
And Fred and Ricky, they were upset because Lucy and Efo were out doing something, and they wanted to eat.
And they couldn't eat.
And they had two cans of beans or something, and they had used a can opener, and they had the lid up.
So that you knew it.
And they were sitting there staring forlorn at this.
They couldn't even warm up beans.
And I remember the time thinking, why are they so upset?
It didn't make any sense to me.
I didn't understand it.
I was a kid.
I didn't understand that they were upset because their wives weren't home and their wives...
Okay, fine, fine, fine.
I came from a family where my mother was a great cook, very experimental.
And we ate all the time at home.
We never went out to eat.
Never.
There was never.
I mean, maybe there might be pizza every now and then.
Maybe.
I remember when Chinese food hit in the 60s.
We drove forever to this place.
It was nothing.
It was Chinese food.
Wow!
Whoa!
And that was it.
It was very, very rare.
And believe it or not, the food was better because it wasn't manufactured.
Anyway.
And I don't know why.
But either she said, do you want to do this, or can I do this?
I remember one time, I liked the idea called Ratatouille.
I remember, I saw it one time when I was a kid, and I said, I think I can do that.
And she said, go ahead.
And I remember making it.
I don't know where I saw this, but it was pretty easy.
It was right around, it was right around, well, it was before that, it was before Pritikin, but before people started to get into, like, eating, you know, plant, plant.
Plant-based foods always made kind of sense to me.
And what we were doing, believe it or not, was really plant-based.
We didn't eat a lot of meat, but it was different.
Anyway, and my mother said, go ahead and do it.
And it was that attitude, like, well, go ahead and do it, of course.
It changed my life.
I loved it.
It took this fear that I had, and it detached it.
It's that you can do this.
This is not a male thing.
This is not a woman.
No, it just was no such thing.
I don't think my father ever cooked anything in his life.
I never saw him one time, which is okay, which is fine.
That was a different generation, different thing like that.
And a lot of girls and people, I don't think it's based on gender or anything like that, but what I'm saying is YouTube and the like has opened up A love of it.
Don't you love this?
Don't you love...
Now, by the way, somebody says no MSG.
MSG, if you read about that, is called, they love this word, umami.
Umami is the word, they love this.
MSG, I am so sensitive to it that one time my tongue was not pulsating, but I...
I can't use it.
Can't use any of it.
Now, I know it's there, and if you get it.
And I always ask people, by the way, if ever you go to any kind of takeout or whatever it is, please, or deliver, tell them you're allergic to it.
They go crazy.
When you say allergic, what?
Allergic?
Oh.
They act differently than, would you leave that out?
Eh, whatever.
Listen to this.
I've got to share this with you.
I've got these friends of ours.
The best thing about New York, Very frankly.
Is that you can get anything delivered.
And I mean anything delivered.
You could be in your apartment or in the city and never leave.
Everything is delivered.
Everything.
I mean everything.
Pharmacy, dry cleaning, food, anything.
You can never leave.
That's why during the...
And that's why you always have to worry about delivery bikes running because they'll kill you.
Anything you want.
We have DoorDash.
We've got Delivery.com.
We've got Grubhub.
We've got this.
We've got that.
Name it.
You want to have whole food delivered?
Name it.
You want regular food?
Name it.
Anything you want.
You never have to leave.
Ever.
And it gets there.
Sometimes it's...
And you can also judge kind of...
Uber Eats changed the whole thing, too.
It's like, look at this guy.
You can see him on a bike.
Anything you want.
Okay.
The other night, we had this conversation, and I'm going to share this with you.
It's one of those ones where I can't get out of my mind.
Your wind song stays in my mind.
Remember that?
Who was that?
Prince Machabelli?
Remember that?
Your wind song stays in my mind.
Anyway.
We have a friend of ours, and I said, why don't you have this delivered?
They live elsewhere.
Jersey.
They have, don't you have like delivery.com or whatever?
Oh no.
We go and get it.
Why?
Well, we don't, what was it?
We don't, what?
We don't trust the food in another car.
We don't trust the food in another car.
Yeah, right, exactly.
Now I said, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait.
Now what I do is, this is one of these ones where I have a condition.
I have an emotional, I think it's a psychiatric condition.
When you say something that doesn't make any sense, I won't let it go.
Because you've got to realize, you know what, you're right, that doesn't make any sense.
I don't care how little, how small it is, it doesn't make any sense.
My mother used to say, she had a diet soda or something.
Make sure you close it.
Why?
Because it'll get ants.
I said, first of all, ants are going to be the women.
Ants are attracted to what?
It was saccharin then.
Aspergerin?
What?
Women.
Ants?
But the ants, this is the kitchen.
Ants have to be here now.
They're not going to be outside and say, hey.
I think the diet ride is open.
It never made any sense.
The whole thing about not going in swimming because you're going to get a cramp.
I don't know what that means either.
I said, should we not bathe?
Anyway.
He said, well, we don't do that.
Why?
Why don't you have delivery?
Well, because we don't trust the food in their car.
They don't take it out of...
It's in a bag.
It's stapled.
What about the people who are serving in there?
No, we go get it.
No, no, no.
Wait, wait, wait.
Why?
Tell me why.
Sometimes you get it faster because the delivery people, it's kind of, they're in a groove and you'll get it faster.
Plus it comes to your, eh, help the economy.
No, no, no.
But I've got to know why.
What do you mean you don't want it in someone's car?
It's in a carryback.
What do you think?
It didn't make any sense.
And it drove me crazy.
I still don't understand.
I don't get it.
You're going to love this one.
You're going to love this one.
I have another friend of mine who says that he makes this particular type of preparation.
I'm not going to say too much because if I say it, they'll know what I'm talking about.
And it's a particular style of Sauce.
And he says, I make it the best.
I make it the best.
And one day, we're in the kitchen.
I'm about to throw something out.
I said, where's your...
He goes, oh, there it is.
It's a little trash receptacle.
You know, we push the button and the lid comes up.
And I look.
And what's in there?
A jar with the sauce that he said he made.
That drove me crazy for a week.
How dare you?
You opened a jar.
Nothing wrong with it.
Why did you tell me that you made this and yours is better than you opened a jar?
You see, you've got to understand something.
When people lie about stuff that doesn't matter, there's something very wrong with them.
Lie about big stuff.
I mean, seriously.
Did you rob the bank?
No.
I understand.
But like my friend Gordon Sully would say, some people would rather climb up a tree and lie than stand there and tell the truth.
That drove me crazy.
Alright, back to what I said.
YouTube is going to change education.
I don't understand why.
You can see the best cooks in the world.
You can learn techniques.
What would you like to do?
You want to make a creme brulee?
How many versions of it do you want?
How many do you want?
Do you want to use a blowtorch to caramelize the top?
What would you like to do?
How about carpentry work?
How about hunting?
How about fishing?
How about building a log cabin?
It's there.
This is the greatest thing in the world.
And it is unleashing cooking.
People are liberated.
Young people.
Old people.
Boys, girls, men, women, whatever, are saying, I can do this because it's cool now.
Of course, they won't know how to make a stick unless they throw it down and slap it down and say, hey guys.
It's changing everything.
Please encourage, encourage your kids.
Show them something.
Applaud them.
Cooking is liberating.
It's the most important thing in the world.
It is there's something so much better when you make it yourself.
It's the best.
And also when foods taste better a day, two days later when it just kind of crumbs together.
It's beautiful.
So the next time we scream and yell about, yes, it does this, yes, it does, yes, I understand, I understand, big tech, yeah, yeah, yeah, chat GPT, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
But, What you can learn is incredible.
I've been hooked on the Watergate.
I found new Watergate testimony I never even heard before.
And I'm transfixed by it.
People are watching the Super Bowl.
I'm watching Howard Hunt being questioned by Sam Irvin.
This is the most fascinating thing I've ever seen in my life.
I don't know what anybody wants to watch a game for, which is fine.
By the way, this morning I was on a radio station.
And I heard somebody give an analysis of a football game.
We know what happened.
This team won.
Yeah, but I give you an analysis.
I don't need your analysis.
Not your analysis.
Your analysis.
Why do people do that?
It's like pizza reviews.
What's that about?
You're reviewing pizza?
Okay.
This is...
Just look at it.
Which one do you want to eat?
I'll take that one.
Terrific.
I know people try to complicate things, but that's a problem a lot of times you get with social media as well.
So my friends, I just want you to understand something.
It's liberating.
Don't think that everything is necessarily bad.
It is not.
It is not necessarily bad.
And by the way, he did not doctor the sauce.
Sorry Carol, you're trying to be nice.
He did not do that.
It was into the thing.
I'm telling you.
There's something about lying about things that don't matter that just drives me absolutely nuts!
And that's me.
Okay?
Call me wacky.
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It's one of those things that just makes a lot of sense.
A whole bunch of sense.
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I shouldn't say my favorite.
I shouldn't say that, but I'm going to say this.
I love talking to you about this because you're the only people who get it.
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Hello?
Seriously?
All right, my dear friends.
You have a great and noble time.
A wonderful time.
Let me also...
Remind you that my...
I'm reading it right now.
I'm just perusing it, making a couple little tweaks and corrections.
Because proofreading is half the battle, my friends.
Go right now.
This is it.
This is my newsletter right here.
Let me get that.
Copy that for you.
I suggest that you follow it as well.
It is a beaut.
And I thank you.
You have a great and glorious Monday.
Don't ever change me that sincerely.
We thank you not for what you do, but for what you appear to do.
And Mrs. L and I love you.
We honestly love you because you are so beautiful to me.
Can't you see?
You are so beautiful to me.
Until tomorrow, we end with this phaledectomy, this denouement, this end.
The monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Suya.
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