The worst possible frame of mind to cook in is high. Although you are feeling too good to notice, you are screwing up in ways which will contribute to folklore before you realize it. Better let everybody else get drunk or buzzed while you attend to the cooking. Once I dropped a whole pan of sauteed mushrooms costing more than $10 on the floor while moving it off the stove. And my most amazing performance was to prepare quiche for the first time at a birthday dinner party for a visiting friend, discovering that although it had been in the oven for more than an hour it was not rising because I had left out the eggs
