Recipes for Disaster

I love to cook. I have a blog. Today, and probably a few more times in the future, I will post about cooking on my blog. Questions, concerns, and hangups may be directed to the management. I once had a friend who didn't understand the fetishization of chocolate. He so resented its common acceptance as The Best Sweet that he systematically avoided it in almost all of its forms. For this, I thought he was a fool. We argued about it now and then. I'd sulk whenever he ordered apple crisp; he'd turn up his nose at my black-bottom pies. Then, for his birthday one year, I got him a pile of premium…