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“Once you have mastered a technique, you
barely have to look at a recipe again.”
― Julia Child

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While they were growing up, I was the house daddy to
three girls and made food preparation family playtime.
I pride myself on the fact that each of my daughters is a
magnificent cook today. My eldest daughter is a vegan.
Two of the other three are dairy free, and walking a
similar food path which my first daughter traveled.

I often do more than just lecture when appearing at
conferences or before college audiences. I delight
in giving cooking demonstrations.

I must have been born with the Bobby Flay gene.
There is a also a bit of Galloping Gourmet DNA in me.

I recognize that meat eaters will happily embrace a
plant-based diet, if they can be shown that vegetarian
foods can be delicious when prepared creatively.

Having attended America’s premier cooking school in
1976 (the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park,
New York), and having worked in and owned a number
of restaurants, I have more than a desire to share some
of my cooking secrets with you. I have an obligation.

Many years ago, Ellen G. White recognized that
educating children to cook healthy meals was a
primary responsibility of adult teachers and parents.

I have adopted many of her most creative concepts
and prophecies, and built this list of the Ten Rules of
Teaching People how to Prepare Food.

Rule #1

“Foods that are healthful and life sustaining are to be
prepared, that men and women will not need to eat meat.”
(1902)

Rule #2

“It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how
to prepare healthful food in different ways, so that it may
be eaten with enjoyment. Mothers should teach their
children how to cook. What branch of the education of a
young lady can be so important as this? The eating has to
do with the life. It is highly essential that the art of cookery
be considered one of the most important branches of
education. There are but few good cooks.”
(1868)

Rule #3

“Before children take lessons on the organ or the piano they
should be given lessons in cooking. The work of learning to
cook need not exclude music, but to learn music is of less
importance than to learn how to prepare food that is
wholesome and appetizing.”
(1868)

Rule #4

“Do not neglect to teach your children how to cook. In doing
so, you impart to them principles which they must have in their
religious education. In giving your children lessons in physiology,
and teaching them how to cook with simplicity and yet with skill,
you are laying the foundation for the most useful branches of
education. Skill is required to make good light bread.”
(1870)

Rule #5

“It is our wisdom to prepare simple, inexpensive, healthful
foods. Many of our people are poor, and healthful foods are
to be provided that can be supplied at prices that the poor
can afford to pay. It is the Lord’s design that the poorest
people in every place shall be supplied with inexpensive,
healthful foods. In many places industries for the manufacture
of these foods are to be established. That which is a blessing
to the work in one place will be a blessing in another place
where money is very much harder to obtain.”
(1905)

Rule #6

“There is much to be learned regarding the preparation of
healthful foods. Foods that are perfectly healthful and yet
inexpensive are to be made. To the poor the gospel of health
is to be preached. In the manufacture of these foods, ways
will be opened up whereby those who accept the truth and
lose their work, will be able to earn a living.”
(1901)

Rule #7

“As the truth is presented in new places, lessons should be given
in hygienic cookery. Teach the people how they may live without
the use of flesh meats. Teach them the simplicity of living.”
(1906)

Rule #8

“Skillful teachers should show the people how to utilize to the
very best advantage the products that they can raise or secure
in their section of the country. Thus the poor, as well as those
in better circumstances, can learn to live healthfully.”
(1902)

Rule #9

“Greater efforts should be put forth to educate the people in
the principles of health reform. Cooking schools should be
established, and house-to-house instruction should be given
in the art of cooking wholesome food. Old and young should
learn how to cook more simply. Wherever the truth is
presented, the people are to be taught how to prepare food
in a simple, yet appetizing way. They are to be shown that a
nourishing diet can be provided without the use of flesh foods.”
(1909)

Rule #10

“The science of cooking is not a small matter. The skillful
preparation of food is one of the most essential arts. It
should be regarded as among the most valuable of all the

arts, because it is so closely connected with the life. Both

physical and mental strength depend to a great degree

upon the food we eat; therefore the one who prepares the

food occupies an important and elevated position.”
(1913)

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“Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.”
– Proverbs 1:8

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