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What kind of reduction does a recipe perform? This short piece considers the recipe as a purpose-oriented list. Based on a recipe for baking cakes of different flavours by following a similar procedure, it reflects on experience, time, chance, generalization, and secrecy.
Keywords: Recipe; Method; History; Failure; Experience
Title
How to Bake X Cake
Subtitle
Notes on the Recipe
Author(s)
Iracema Dulley
Identifier
Description
What kind of reduction does a recipe perform? This short piece considers the recipe as a purpose-oriented list. Based on a recipe for baking cakes of different flavours by following a similar procedure, it reflects on experience, time, chance, generalization, and secrecy.
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Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
11 October 2022
Subject
Recipe
Method
History
Failure
Experience
Rights
© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Language
en-GB
page start
277
page end
279
Source
The Case for Reduction, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger, Cultural Inquiry, 25 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 277–79
Cite as: Iracema Dulley, ‘How to Bake X Cake: Notes on the Recipe’, in The Case for Reduction, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger, Cultural Inquiry, 25 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 277-79 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-25_17>