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enjoy b a y W lon terme C A FOOL OF MYSELF A Cannabis Culinary Column Just because you can put marijuana in food doesn’t mean you should. Food should always be delicious, and cooking with cannabis doesn’t always take you there. Watermelon serves up her thoughts on cannabis as a culinary excursion. 90 grow. heal. learn. enjoy. ooking with cannabis is a lot like riding a unicycle. Once you get the hang of it, you become invincible! Building my marijuana bakery was, and still is, forg- ing ahead into unchartered waters. When I baked and sold my first pot cookie some 20 years ago, competition wasn’t stiff. In fact, it was almost non-existent. As the years went by, competition grew slightly but never with any great alarm. Even today, I find myself mostly nonplussed by edibles available on the market. Great packaging, great look, awful taste. Why? CANNABIS AS A CULINARY EXCURSION Cooking with cannabis as science is almost never delicious. Cooking with cannabis as a culinary excursion is gloriously delicious. You must treat the cannabis a lot like any other herb you would incorporate into any other dish. How will it taste? Will it be overpowering? Where can it be blended? How much should I use? myhydrolife.com