Dispatch

Dispatch

Short notes on cooking as a way of thinking. The guides are the mechanisms; this is the thinking around them.

On understanding

A recipe is a list of instructions with the reasons taken out.

Cooking by feel, then learning to tweak on purpose: asking what each ingredient is actually for, loving the cascade when one swap moves an assumption the whole recipe was resting on, and noticing it’s the same move as the day job.

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