002 · food · active since march 2026
food
Treat cooking as the most repeated experiment a human runs.
current perspectives · 38
Alone I eat standing up, from the pan. It is the only meal I never photograph and the only one I remember.
Cooking for one is the only place where I am allowed to be inconsistent.
Nobody watching means no salt discipline. Turns out my real taste is louder than my public taste.
111-day experiments
One dish, eleven ways
hypothesis: Repetition of one dish teaches more than variety.
emerging truths · v0.2 · provisional
What people cook alone is closer to their actual taste than anything they serve to guests.
contradictions
Cooking for yourself is the honest version of cooking.
Food only becomes food when someone else eats it.
Recipes are scaffolding for beginners.
Recipes are the accumulated evidence of thousands of failed attempts.
both are held by people who have tested them. useful disagreement is the point.
collective library
Rice, eleven times
Hospitality as performance