The algorithm for the perfect biryanion March 14, 2021 at 1:14 am

A new book argues that cooking, at its heart, is chemistry. And algorithms are the key to it.

He dismisses the idea that there is “magic” in the hands of great cooks – “it keeps patriarchy alive,” he says, since the hand almost always belongs to a mother or grandmother. What makes them such good cooks, he believes, is a deep knowledge of food, born of observation, experiment and, most of all, patience.