No one is too busy to cook.

Given that we all bring such different food memories to the table, how is it ever possible to cook a meal that will please everyone?

Chefs are cooking blind, for strangers whose memories are unknown.

For thousands of years, servants and slaves--or in lesser households, wives and daughters--were stuck with the same pestles and sieves, with few innovations. This technological stagnation reflects a harsh truth. There was very little interest in attempting to save labor when the labor in question was not your own.