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Cooking is Like Playing With Legos
And the magic ingredient is….
When I was a kid a hundred years ago I was a Lego freak. I could build things with Legos forever. Once I built something I would take a few minutes to admire it then I would take it all apart and build something new only to destroy it once it was completed in order to build something new. This would go on for countless hours and I only ever stopped because my parents would finally say, “Enough already! Put the Legos away.”
Way, way back then Legos had not yet become popular in America. Not every kid had even heard of them. My siblings and I had a large box of them that our grandfather had sent to us from Europe. Legos were a lot different back then.
Nowadays, when you buy a box of Legos there is a picture on the box and there are all the Lego pieces in the box, along with a diagram, to build what is in the picture on the box. It is essentially just a puzzle to be put together. All you need is a functioning left-half of a brain to put the puzzle together.
The big box of Legos we had so long ago came with no pictures and no diagrams; just a whole lot of random pieces. This forced us out of the puzzle-solving portion of our left-brains into our…. IMAGINATION.
We had to imagine something and then build it. Today’s Lego puzzle boxes do not…
