Great blog from a chef who's full of opinion and history on matters foodie:
Today it seems that another terrible scourge is being spread, this time by a small band of cooks who contaminate via the airwaves. Like Mary, those of us who play with our food on television had no idea we were spawning the dread KPA, Kitchen Performance Anxiety. Heck, I didn't even know that KPA existed (let alone that I was a carrier) until an article by Paul Levy in the January 30 Wall Street Journal filled me in on the work of one David Warburton, a professor of psychology at England's University of Reading. Seems that Prof. Warburton has conducted extensive research into the entertaining habits of Brits and found that a growing number of them actually suffer more anxiety from cooking a simple dinner for friends than they would going on a job interview or a first date. Some even experience extreme symptoms including "…rapid heart rate, nausea, sensitivity to noise and mental distraction so great that they [can] not continue cooking."
(Thanks, Boogah!)
