• Cooking is simple, natural, and most of all, FUN!
• The messier you are, the more fun you have cooking
• The more fun you have cooking, the better it tastes.
• Be adventurous with food, experiment, throw caution (and salt) to the wind.
• There is no right or wrong way to cook.
• Great stuff happens from accidents. We call this accidental cuisine.
• Cooking is an experience to be savored by all senses..the steam, the aromas, the colors...the mess.
• Gourmet is a style where there are no boundaries. This means everything FUN is gourmet.
• We are all Gourmet cooks.
• Gourmet cooks like cooking but not cleaning up.
• Naming a dish in a unique way adds mystique to it
• If you burn a dish - Call it "well-done."
• If you undercook a dish - Call it "al dente."
• No esoteric ingredients(ok maybe some ...otherwise it wouldn't be adventurous),or over-complicated fussy cooking techniques .
• Throw the measuring cup and spoon out the window. We only deal in pinches, dashes, bits and bytes.
• Immune to the Martha Syndrome

Let us know if you have any additions to the Manifesto.