So, recently I have taken on a mission to present world cuisine (from all countries and cultures) to Chinese people, how to cook it, along with some food science knowledge which I think will benefit them. So I have made a blog as a reservoir for my recipes and each recipe goes with some history of the dish and looks like a lesson. So far I have gotten 10000 views since I created the blog 4 months ago.
While many people praise my endeavor to bring eye-opening experience with food from other cultures, and sharing food science knowledge that's seldom known by casual cooks, I also received many harsh criticism that basically says:
1. I'm not humble to try to "teach" people
2. My knowledge is wrong
3. My cooking skill is bad
4. I should learn more before trying to teach and mislead other people
No matter what they say, they don't provide any suggestions on how to do it better.
First of all I do agree that neither my knowledge or my skill is comparable to any professional chefs out there, because I'm a network engineer, with no cooking school experience and everything I know is from my own research and trial-and-error. I'm still refining many of my recipes and even when I look back to some of my older blog posts I feel it's not right.
However, the problem is, there are currently nobody out there who's sharing these knowledge and world cuisine to Chinese people, and those who criticized me aren't really contributing anything. When asked, they always say, my knowledge isn't good enough so I don't want to mislead other people. So now I'm unsure how I should proceed. I feel that though my knowledge and skills don't measure up to pros, but they are sufficient for casual people who are starting to learn about cuisine from other part of the world, and my emphasis is on making grass-root, home made, easy-to-do, down to the earth tasty food rather than restaurant quality, professionally presented fine dinning. It's like DDD vs. Iron Chef America.
I'm really passionate about researching new food from all over the world and sharing it with others, and since I can't become a chef myself, I find plenty of successful feeling in this effort. I do understand that becoming a celebrity in a community will be hated by some people while loved by others, I just want to hear some opinion from you guys on how I should go on, should I stop sharing what I know and refine my own skills first, or should I keep doing what I love to do and ignore the nonconstructive criticisms?
While many people praise my endeavor to bring eye-opening experience with food from other cultures, and sharing food science knowledge that's seldom known by casual cooks, I also received many harsh criticism that basically says:
1. I'm not humble to try to "teach" people
2. My knowledge is wrong
3. My cooking skill is bad
4. I should learn more before trying to teach and mislead other people
No matter what they say, they don't provide any suggestions on how to do it better.
First of all I do agree that neither my knowledge or my skill is comparable to any professional chefs out there, because I'm a network engineer, with no cooking school experience and everything I know is from my own research and trial-and-error. I'm still refining many of my recipes and even when I look back to some of my older blog posts I feel it's not right.
However, the problem is, there are currently nobody out there who's sharing these knowledge and world cuisine to Chinese people, and those who criticized me aren't really contributing anything. When asked, they always say, my knowledge isn't good enough so I don't want to mislead other people. So now I'm unsure how I should proceed. I feel that though my knowledge and skills don't measure up to pros, but they are sufficient for casual people who are starting to learn about cuisine from other part of the world, and my emphasis is on making grass-root, home made, easy-to-do, down to the earth tasty food rather than restaurant quality, professionally presented fine dinning. It's like DDD vs. Iron Chef America.
I'm really passionate about researching new food from all over the world and sharing it with others, and since I can't become a chef myself, I find plenty of successful feeling in this effort. I do understand that becoming a celebrity in a community will be hated by some people while loved by others, I just want to hear some opinion from you guys on how I should go on, should I stop sharing what I know and refine my own skills first, or should I keep doing what I love to do and ignore the nonconstructive criticisms?
