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Ep 204: A Scientist in the Kitchen

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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What's the Difference Between Art and Craft?

Cooking should not be a high pressure, daily thing that you do three times. Home cooking is an engineering discipline; it shouldn't be thiscrutable thing. Even in home cooking, you sometimes have these memories of your grandmother or some relatives who were good cooks. And nostalgia has to do with the same part of the brain that processes flavor. So i call out something that's objectively better than another dish just because we're more sentimental about our past and so on.

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