The organising fact is that rice is not one ingredient. Varieties differ in starch composition in ways that make them truly unsuitable for each other dishes, and almost every rice…
The single structural problem is that visitors and residents eat in different places, at different times, from different menus - and everything below is a way of moving from the…
The useful frame is that bread is a foam with a solid structure. Something has to make the gas, something has to trap it, and something has to set around…
The organising fact is that a plant has several parts, and if you consistently select for one of them getting bigger, you eventually get a vegetable that is mostly that…
The useful frame is that milk is holding itself together rather than being a stable liquid. Almost everything below is either that arrangement breaking or somebody breaking it on purpose.…