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I wonder if the 'timelessness' of Cook's Illustrated will become more of an issue, as time goes on. Can they really keep coming up with a new Thanksgiving turk

• jonknee 18y ago
  That's silly. Will musicians run out of melodies? Or screen writers run out of stories? People have been cooking for thousands of years and somehow keep learning more. Food tastes are always changing, if you go back and watch old black and white Julia Child cooking shows she talks about a exotic herb called basil that you should definitely check out if you can find locally. Dried basil, the stuff that's hardly worth buying these days because fresh is so much better. Who knows what foods will seem commonplace in 50 years?
  • likpok 18y ago
    Your comparison is an apt one. Both recipes and music are things we think of as infinite, but are not (Proof: you can encode all music/recipes/whatever as a finite series of 0's and 1's. Hence, there is a finite (and easily calculated) upper bound on the number of recipes shorter than a certain length.) Now, these representations are fairly long (and furthermore, music can't be made much shorter), so there are a fair number of variations. In conclusion: Yes, they will run out someday. However, this may be after the heat-death of the universe. A bigger risk to their business model is humanity changing to not need food.