While looking through my pantry trying to figure out what to make for dinner, I came to the realization that I was missing at least one key ingredient for my usual recepies. In a mix of desperation, boredom, and hunger, I pondered the significance of what a recipe is. A recipe is no more than a well designed chemical procedure designed to give a specific result. Recipes call for specific tools; whether it be a oven or GC mass, the success of your procedure strongly depends on how instruments are used. Cooking is a science, and an under appreciated science at that.
Some of you nay sayers out there insist that cooking is an art, but I call for a closer inspection of fine art. Painting is a combination of organic chemistry and geometry. Photography is a complicated form of physics and developing film is chemistry. Music is based in complex math and wave physics. Cooking and baking are edible forms of chemistry. I'm right, QED.
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