If Your Kitchen Smells Good, Your Food

One Of The Things That I Love To Do Is Travel Around The World And Look At Archaeological Sites. Because Archaeology Gives Us An Opportunity To Study Past Civilizations, And See Where They Succeeded And Where They Failed. Use Science To, You Know, Work Backwards And Say, 'well, Really, What Were They Thinking?'

Most Decisions Are Seat-of-the-pants Judgments. You Can Create A Rationale For Anything. In The End, Most Decisions Are Based On Intuition And Faith.

If You Have Two Steaks, One That's An Inch Thick, One That's 2 Inches Thick, How Much Longer Does The Thicker One Need To Cook? It's Four Times As Long. It Goes Roughly Like The Square. How Come Cookbooks Don't Tell You That?

The Reason Societies With Democratic Governments Are Better Places To Live In Than Their Alternatives Isn't Because Of Some Goodness Intrinsic To Democracy, But Because Its Hopeless Inefficiency Helps Blunt The Basic Potential For Evil.

The Physics Of Water Is Central To Cooking, Because Food Is Mostly Water. All Steak That You Cook Is Actually Boiled On The Inside.