19. Waiter, There’s a Physicist in My Soup! (Part 1)
Freakonomics Radio
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Cooking Without Understanding
Nathan Merevold and Alice Waters both have an obvious passion for the future of food, but radically different ways to realize that vision. Wishing doesn't make the food hot; it's the way molecules bump into each other that makes it hot. If all you want to do is repeat the recipes of the past with no curiosity as to how or why it works, then you don't need this physical understanding.
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