The Joy of Cooking

Hargraves-Heap and Varoufakis, hurray!

Their project is a model for this book,

But what's here is diff'rent from what they say,

Like Irma Rombau'er, I write for the cook.

It's good for crits to learn mainstream models,

And their failures to reach resolution,

How they put wine inside cloudy bottles,

How they wind up in fogged involution.

My book does not explain the mainstream's ways,

My cooks are very light on mathy tech,

But they saute, reduce, puree, and braise,

They think it's good to stick out your own neck.

Should we critique the mainstream?  Cook new stuff?

Both paths are good, each one is not enough. 

[Intro]