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With Cult Foods, There Is An Underlying Assumption That The Best Cooking Ideas Came Generations Ago. Yet Culinary Innovation Is Nothing To Be Ashamed Of. When A Chef Tells Me He Is Cooking With His Grandmother's Recipe, I Always Wonder Why. Did Talent Skip The Past Two Generations?

The Prize For Ultimate Inefficiency Goes To America. We Have Built In So Many Checks And Balances That Our 'leaders' Are The Most Thoroughly Hogtied Of Any On Earth.

By Burning Nuclear Waste As Fuel, We Believe We Can Power The United States Cleanly For Hundreds Of Years Without Ever Touching New Resources.

If I Say I've Got Two Versions Of Word - That Old One From 1982 That's Perfect, With Zero Defects; Or The New One That's Got All This Cool New Stuff, But There Might Be A Few Bugs In It - People Always Want The New One. But I Wouldn't Want Them To Operate A Plane I Was On With Software That Happened To Be The Latest Greatest Release!

The Best Value For Money In Cooking Equipment, In My Mind, Is First A Digital Scale And Digital Thermometer. They're Both About $20. They Help You Cook So Much More Accurately That They're Both Enormously Valuable.