When I was a little girl my grandmother taught me to cook. She didn’t give me recipes with measurements or provide basic skills for chopping, sautéing and properly searing meat.
But, she taught me how to smell when something was adequately spiced or cooked. I never thought there was anything special about this skill since it came naturally to me.
I just knew it was extremely useful. When I was a little girl I was also sexually abused by my grandmother’s husband, my step-grandfather.
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