"Hopefully, this will work now."

There's a lot to gain from cooking. It's a celebration when you invite friends over and everyone enjoys it. But it's always a risk, too. Because seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds, decide whether everything goes well or not. Every half minute, I fish a noodle out of the water and taste it, cut into the steak countless times because I'm unsure, and don't season the salad properly for fear of oversalting it. And even though I can say that I