A Manifesto: The Creation of a Baker(y)

Inspired by a search for purpose, drive, and progress, as well as an assortment of trivial events (which, yes, does include Julie and Julia and a trip to Old Grist Mill Bakery), I have decided to take my own journey. This journey is one to create a list of perfect recipes. The thought behind this creation of amazing recipes is to find the recipes that would make up my own personal bakery core. I figure all baker's start by having amazing recipes. I have a few amazing recipes, but I am an aspiring cook and I don't know very much.

What I do know:
1. Most things taste pretty good with a recipe to follow. Recipes are hard to screw up completely.
2. That being said, there is a lot of things to learn a long the way to perfection. I am interested to know how to make things more moist, or more flavorful. The important thing is I DO know that there is a science behind cooking. I just need to learn it.
3. Food taste good, and it is easy to share. I am able to share happiness with people just by delivering them delicious food.

So, just to put this all more clearly:

My Goal:
Collect the "best of's" in the baking world. In essence, I am creating a bakery.*
[*I will use the word bakery loosely. Though most of my recipe attempts will be baked goods, there will be other recipes that sneak in, just because I can't be eating carbs all the time.]

My Plan of Action:
At least one recipe will be tried a week. I will be ranking each recipe in comparison to each other. There will be different categories (i.e. cupcakes, cookies, frosting, rolls, breads, etc.)

To finish this Baking Manifesto, I invite you to come along with me on this journey of unknown length, because I know that nearly all of us love food and I figure people like thinking and reading about food as well. Please feel free to comment and give suggestions.