RecipeMuncher

Culinary history can be read as a chronicle of the struggle surrounding the control of rot. I was originally going to call cookery’s relationship to decay a “battle against,” but that view is far from accurate. Closer to the truth would be to call it an “uneasy and ever-shifting truce” between acceptable loss and inevitable decay. The trend towards entropy, after all, is a universal constant; degradation cannot be prevented, but might be gently re-directed. Cookery expends a great (...)

Culinary history can be read as a chronicle of the struggle surrounding the control of rot. I was originally going to call cookery’s relationship to decay a “battle against,” but that view is far from accurate. Closer to the truth would be to call it an “uneasy and ever-shifting truce” between acceptable loss and inevitable decay. The trend towards entropy, after all, is a universal constant; degradation cannot be prevented, but might be gently re-directed. Cookery expends a great (...)