Recipes & Ingredients - Lists

While cooking at home you first have to have a type of food you’d like to make – a list of food genres. Are you in the mood for Asian, Southern or Italian food? You have recipes, within that, a list of ingredients and then a list of measurements. [Only talk about ingredients at this point. Save measurements for later] Some of these ingredients are always there. Muffins will always have flour. Icing will always have sugar. Then there are the variations of ingredients, personal touches. There may be orange zest added to a cake or capers to a dish of pasta with lemon butter sauce. [Measurements] When the relaxing task of home cooking now has numbers and detailed lists added to it you realize the artist also has to be a mathematician. An interesting idea and almost hard to agree with, that the abstract can be combined with the concrete.