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Culinary Tradition Is Not Always Based On Fact. Sometimes It's Based On History, On Habits That Come Out Of A Time When Kitchens Were Fueled By Charcoal.

What Happens Is That In Each Clump You've Got The Gelatinization Of Starches, Which Happens Very Quickly At The Surface Of The Clump And It Kind Of Forms A Protective Skin Around This Dry Hunk Of Flour.

You Know We Fixate On The Food So Much Itself: “oh, The Ultimate Brownie Or The Ultimate This Or That” -- Well, Let Me Tell You Something: It’s All Poop In About 12 Hours, Okay? The Real Power That Food Has Is Its Ability To Connect Human Beings To Each Other -- That’s The Stuff Right There And, To Me, Everything Else Is Secondary To That.

Flame Is Bad. Flame Does Nasty Things To Food. It Makes Soot And It Makes Deposits Of Various Chemicals That Are Not Too Good For Us. The Last Thing You Really Want To See Licking At Your Food While It's On A Grill Is An Actual Flame.

A Home Cook Who Relies Too Much On A Recipe Is Sort Of Like A Pilot Who Reads The Plane's Instruction Manual While Flying.