The Chef And The Roast Beef

Once upon a time, there was a Master Chef. He was a fantastic cook and had won many cooking competitions. He had cooked many meals, more than almost any other man alive. People loved his food, and came from all over to watch him cook, and eat his food.

But as the Chef continued to age, he became uncomfortable when people asked him to cook outside of his own kitchen. He became tentative and scared. He only used the most, plain and boring ingredients. While the chef would occasionally spice things up at home, when he had to cook in someone else's kitchen, he didn't want to risk a thing. He was so afraid to ruin a meal, that he made everything so bland and vanilla, that ultimately, it did ruin the meal.

Then, one day, the Chef forgot how to cook roast beef. He had cooked roast beef many times before, but all of a sudden he forgot how to cook roast beef. Sometimes it was too soft. Sometimes, it was too tough, but no matter what, the master chef just could not cook roast beef anymore. According to those that had watched him cook, and had eaten his meals, he hadn't cooked roast beef properly since 1996.

However 2007 was going to be a return to glory for this chef, and most of all, his ability to cook roast beef. In fact, two other chefs had recently cooked roast beef to perfection. One was a chef from North Carolina, and the other was from Oregon. They both cooked their roast beef to perfection.

The master Chef even had their recipes: both the chefs from Oregon and North Carolina provided a video to the master chef on how to PERFECTLY cook roast beef. They showed him how to carve it beautifully, and serve it up so that everyone could enjoy it.

So what did our master chef do? Rather than follow the recipes, he reverted to old ways, and kept using the same recipe since 1997. Why did the master Chef do this? Unfortunately, we'll never know. However, we do know that using the same old bland boring recipes, and not following wining recipes from other chefs, will eventually lead people to forget about the chefs great meals of the past, and merely ask: "How many more years until roast beef rotates off of the dinner menu?"