Bill, We Left Megalomania Behind

There's No Way I'm Going To Stand Up For Bad Ingredients. We Love Seasonal Ingredients. It's A False Dichotomy To Say That Modern Cooking Is At Odds With That, But Some People Want To Have A Great Ingredient And No Technique.

Chefs Think About What It's Like To Make Food. Being A Scientist In The Kitchen Is About Asking Why Something Works, And How It Works.

Efficiency In Government Is A More Elusive Concept Than Efficiency In The Private Economy, Which May Be Measured Relatively Easily As Output Per Units Of Input. What Is The Government's 'output?'

Cooking Is For Chefs. Science Informs Us And Lets Us Cook While Knowing What We Are Doing, But It Is Not A Replacement For The Skills Of A Chef.

I Wanted To Figure Out How Long To Cook Things. I Did Some Experiments And Then Wrote A Program Using Mathematica To Model How Heat Is Transferred Through Food.