My sister cooked a lot of Thanksgiving this year. She's still discovering her angle in cooking. You could tell the difference between dishes she prepares and dishes I prepare just in appearance. She has a tendency to hastily chop things, resulting in large chunks. She will end a dish with a weird flourish of fresh herbs, but they are so coarsely chopped, you wind up with an almost salad-like effect. I crave uniformity - I spent 20 minutes chopping apples into perfect 1mm cubes for an experimental apple pie I was thinking about. She doesn't do any mise-en-place, it's more free-form. I think her style is borne out of a chef-centric ethic. I think mine is more process-centric.
2008-11-29
I have an idea for sports. Many high-level sports include instant replay, referee review, and call challenges as part of the game. The challenges should be subject to arguments from each team. Each team should have a litigator as part of the review process and let the arguments become a part of the game. During a challenge, the TV/big screen would cut to a conference room where an arbitrator and the two representatives would present their argument for 30, 60, 90 seconds - whatever it is. The litigator would be an extra player for the team and fans would get excited when their team signs a high-profile one. Kids could grow up hoping to get into a good law school that was attached to a high profile college football program so they could be arguing calls on Saturdays on ESPN. Then they'd get drafted by Seahawks and argue calls professionally.
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