The Sous Chef Who Guesses in Batches

When Waiting Becomes the Problem You are sitting in a restaurant, watching the kitchen through a pass-through window. The head chef — meticulous, authoritative — is assembling a dish. But the rule of this kitchen is strange: the chef cannot pick up the next ingredient until the previous one has been tasted, judged, and placed. Each move waits on the one before. The kitchen is gorgeous, the chef is talented, and the food will be exquisite — but you are going to be here a very long time. This is,