Bird Wilder

Wilder Rant: Fancy Food Nation

Wilder rant alert, people. I merely tried to cook dinner. It didn’t go well. I wish I had a nice red wine to wash the taste of failure from my mouth, but alas…I do not. Ice cold green tea will have to suffice. There is nothing, absolutely nothing more awkward than messing up a recipe with the words “fool proof” in the title. I mean, it hurts almost as bad as having emotionally unavailable parents. I bet they’d love me if I could properly pan sear sea scallops, but I digress. This self-confidence shattering experience has brought me to the topic of this Wilder rant. When did cooking become so flipping pretentious? Has it always been this way? It is possible that it has. I will contend the advent of social media and blogging has opened the door for people with the most amazing boiled water recipe to think they are master chefs. I have seen identical banana nut bread recipes, but one of them is haughty enough to declare their recipe the best.