Oscar Wilde said, “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” As with many things Oscar Wilde, this is both witty and true. In my next life I aspire to being a professional aphorist.
Nothing will teach you to do, or not do, something quite as effectively as doing it and realizing half way through exactly how bad an idea it was. That being said, there are a lot of stupid things I’ve done in the kitchen that I’d have been willing to take on faith as bad ideas rather than having to experience them for myself. Out of idle curiosity I polled Dinner to find out what things they wish someone had told them not to do before they found out the hard way. For a group of people with (collectively) an alarming amount of education, we did all seem to be a little short on common sense. Mind you, this does add further proof to my theory that there is an inverse relationship between the quantity of higher education you have achieved and the amount of common sense you demonstrate.
Monday Night Dinner 