{"id":2600,"date":"2016-08-08T22:40:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T22:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/I-happen-to-enjoy-cooking-shows-which-is-why-I-read-this-article-on-one-chefs-theory-of-food"},"modified":"2016-08-08T22:40:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T22:40:01","slug":"i-happen-to-enjoy-cooking-shows-which-is-why-i-read-this-article-on-one-chefs-theory-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/08\/08\/i-happen-to-enjoy-cooking-shows-which-is-why-i-read-this-article-on-one-chefs-theory-of-food\/","title":{"rendered":"I happen to enjoy cooking shows, which is why I read this article on one chef&#8217;s theory of food."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>I happen to enjoy cooking shows, which is why I read this article on one chef&#8217;s theory of food. But I ended up wondering if it could be applied to writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, he&#8217;s saying: find the underlying &#8220;formal pattern&#8221; of a dish and translate it into different ingredients. Classic dishes are classic because they work reliably. Take a classic and deconstruct it; what are its parts? Now, what can you substitute for those parts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard Brandon Sanderson remark on the Writing Excuses podcast that a buddy-cop movie has essentially the same underlying structure as a romance. He often refers to stories that have no overt reference to sports as &#8220;underdog sports&#8221; stories: outsider joins group of losers, they learn to accept the outsider and are inspired to win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, could I write a heist novel where the project isn&#8217;t a heist, but an engineering challenge? Or a mystery novel where the mystery isn&#8217;t a murder, but a scientific (or historical, or archaeological) puzzle? (I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s been done.) What other ways could we use classic structures with new ingredients?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/07\/chef-david-chang-on-deliciousness\/<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        I happen to enjoy cooking shows, which is why I read this article on one chef&#8217;s theory of food.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/08\/08\/i-happen-to-enjoy-cooking-shows-which-is-why-i-read-this-article-on-one-chefs-theory-of-food\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[68],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}