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Home Essays Bio Email Jiggity's Essays Nobody's Interested in the Kitchen August 2014 Everyone loves delicious food, but few people are interested about what happens in the kitchen. Think back to the last time you had a fantastic meal at a restaurant. Did you march into the kitchen, pull the chef aside, and demand, "What's your secret?" What you actually did was exclaim how wonderful the food tasted to your date and then forgot about it. This isn't a personal fault. This phenomenon is actually what makes the creative arts work. You can enjoy the experience without worrying about the design underneath. Ignorance is the main ingredient to magic. Creative work takes an immense amount of taste to create, but a minimum amount of taste to enjoy. Getting Feedback This causes problems when you present an incomplete product. When you ask someone without taste to evaluate it, you'll get misleading, or worse, demoralizing feedback. Note that I don't mean "people without taste" as a pejorati

Jiggity's Essays Home Essays Bio Email Jiggity's Essays Nobody's Interested in the Kitchen August 2014 Everyone loves delicious food, but few people are interested about what happens in the kitchen. Think back to the last time you had a fantastic meal at a restaurant. Did you march into the kitchen, pull the chef aside, and demand, "What's your secret?" What you actually did was exclaim how wonderful the food tasted to your date and then forgot about it. This isn't a personal fault. This phenomenon is actually what makes the creative arts work. You can enjoy the experience without worrying abo

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