{"id":4249,"date":"2009-11-25T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2009-11-25T03:00:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T08:00:54","slug":"bork-bork-bork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4249","title":{"rendered":"Bork, Bork, Bork!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twistedphysics.typepad.com\/cocktail_party_physics\/2009\/11\/tasters-choice.html\">Cocktail Party Physics: taster&#8217;s choice<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With all due respect to Tom, cooking, done properly, is not about blindly following recipes: it involves a lot of prediction and testing by experiment to get a dish just right. The recipes just give you the basic framework.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think the key phrase here is &#8220;done properly,&#8221; which I suspect applies to a minority of cooking.  As Jennifer had noted<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W]hat he&#8217;s really objecting to is not cooking per se, but the blind following of a recipe\/instructions, which isn&#8217;t any more scientific than rote memorization of scientific facts.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have absolutely no problem with saying that there can be a whole lot of science in cooking, if you approach it that way.  So go read the whole thing, it&#8217;s good (as usual), and has the Swedish chef.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cocktail Party Physics: taster&#8217;s choice With all due respect to Tom, cooking, done properly, is not about blindly following recipes: it involves a lot of prediction and testing by experiment to get a dish just right. The recipes just give &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4249\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}