Critics have always been challenged by his art, though from the start it contained enough easily acceptable ingredients, evident skill and gusto, to ensure popularity.
Hosted by DJ Sara Cox and master potters Kate Malone and Keith Brymer Jones, Great Pottery Throw Down has tapped into the British fascination with craft, utilising the familiar ingredients of skill, innuendo and warmth.
It is difficult to categorize Forty One's cuisine -- if anything, one could describe it as international haute cuisine -- and while all dishes were perfectly executed and ingredients and skill were of the highest quality, to me it lacked a distinctive personality.
At least a few producers think it's worth highlighting what their location, ingredients and skills can do in a bottle.
It was one of those dishes that seem so easy you could make it at home, but good luck replicating the quality of the ingredients and the skill of the four hands that blended them!
What's the point of a system that gives a pasty cachet for being made in Cornwall rather than for the quality of its ingredients, or the skill with which it is made?
If in doubt, choose the straightforward food activity over one that takes a lot of ingredients, time, or skill.
Again, McLaughlin says, "NO!" Little in the culinary world demands such quality of ingredient and such skill in preparation to avoid serious disappointment.
But the huge influence of global fast food stays out on the street, not entering most home kitchens: shopping for fresh ingredients, mastering knife skills and presenting food beautifully are still daily rituals for many Japanese women.
As suggested by Moore et al. 2014, engineering design challenges and other projects can be complex and involve both science and mathematics, but an essential ingredient is the skill of the teacher to facilitate conversations embracing this complexity, highlighting crosscutting concepts and aspects of science and engineering practices that unify the many "parts".
