“All great artists and thinkers are great workers, indefatigable not only in inventing, but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering.” — Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human (1878) 

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I found an old notebook the other day, pages filled with scribbles, recipes, and fleeting thoughts from my early chef years. Two lines caught my eye. They seemed unrelated, yet