Cooking Is For Chefs. Science Informs Us

The Idea Behind A Dish - The Delight And The Surprise - Makes A Difference. Great Literature Surprises And Delights, And Provokes Us. It Isn't Just 'here's The Facts - Boy Meets Girl, Boy Loses Girl, Boy Gets Girl.' It's How You Tell It.

Elections, For Their Part, Are Typically Popularity Contests Rather Than Measures Of Candidates' Relative Competency Or Effectiveness. Imagine If Scientific Truth Were Determined According To Which Scientist Was Most Popular. To Be Successful, Scientists Would Have To Be Charismatic And Attractive - And Human Knowledge Would Suffer Terribly.

It's Impossible That We're Alone In The Universe. Every Time We Think We're More Special Than Others, We're Proven Wrong.

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.

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?'