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 ====Stoemp: on cooking and coding====
-Stoemp or Stamppot, a dish traditionally served in the low countries during wintertime, is named after a mode rather than it's ingredients. There exist as many variations as there are vegetables you could think of mixing with potatoes, but they have one thing in common: the cadential 'stoempen' that is needed to pulverize ingredients into an unctuous mush.
+Stoemp or Stamppot, a dish traditionally served in the low countries during wintertime is named after it's mode rather than after it's ingredients. There exist as many variations as there are vegetables you could imagine mixing with potatoes, but they all have one thing in common: the cadential 'stoempen'  needed to pulverize the ingredients into an unctuous mush.
-Transforming the act of cooking into a recipe requires digitization, making physical gestures discrete from the continuous, that is, digital rather than analogue. It's assumed reproducibility results in a predictable grammar:
-Peel and roughly chop potatoes. Wash the vegetables carefully, then slice fairly finely. Place all ingredients in a large stock pot, and add water to barely cover. Cover with lid, bring to the boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes until the vegetables are tender. Drain well, then mash. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve with gravy or butter.
+//Peel and roughly chop potatoes. Wash the vegetables carefully, then slice fairly finely. Place all ingredients in a large stock pot, and add water to barely cover. Cover with lid, bring to the boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes until the vegetables are tender. Drain well, then mash. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve with gravy or butter//.
-Luce Giard writes: “under the silent and repetitive system of everyday servitudes that one carries out by habit, the mind elsewhere, in a series of mechanically executed operations whose sequence follows a traditional design dissimulated under the mask of the obvious, there piles up a subtle montage of gestures, rites, and codes, of rhythms and choices, of received usage and practiced customs.” She reminds us of the meaningful monotony of housework, carefully conforming to expectation while avoiding boredom. Does she like kale, carrots, endives? Did we eat this already, yesterday? How can I make it fit his diet? What is available at this time of year? What is left over from yesterday?
-In software production, conventions are implemented so that programmers can 'enjoy' the benefits of automated behavior. Valorizing convention over configuration is only one of the techniques applied to make software writing more efficient. Duplication of information increases the difficulty to change, may decrease clarity, and leads to opportunities for inconsistency. In achieving a redundancy-free program, it is inevitable that many iterative alterations are necessary to produce truly efficient code.
-Peel, chop, slice, cover, boil, drain, mash, season, serve.
+Transforming the act of cooking into a recipe requires digitization, making physical gestures discrete from the continuous. The assumed reproducibility of such an instructive text relies on a reference system of pre-defined processes, moulded into predictable grammar and self-explanatory structures.
-They might share many more imagined similarities, but it is the piling up of rhythms that define the practice of cooking as much as coding. Both rely on mixing familiar gestures with unfamiliar ones, where some forms of repetition are more redundant than others.
+//Peel, chop, wash, slice, place, add, cover, boil, simmer, drain, mash, season, serve.//
-===Sources===
+Luce Giard reminds us of the meaningful monotony of housework, conforming to expectation while carefully avoiding boredom: “under the silent and repetitive system of everyday servitudes that one carries out by habit, the mind elsewhere, in a series of mechanically executed operations whose sequence follows a traditional design dissimulated under the mask of the obvious, there piles up a subtle montage of gestures, rites, and codes, of rhythms and choices, of received usage and practiced customs.” Does she like kale, carrots, endives? Did we eat this already, yesterday? How can I make it fit his diet? What is available at this time of year? What is left over from yesterday?
-  * H.M.S.J. De Hol. Ik kan koken. Geillustreerd handboek voor allen die willen leeren koken. Sijthof uitgeverij, 1931
+In software production, the use of conventions is encouraged so that programmers can 'enjoy' the benefits of automated behavior. Valorizing convention over configurability, is only one of the techniques applied to make software writing more efficient. Duplication of information increases the difficulty to change, may decrease clarity, and leads to opportunities for inconsistency. But the act of producing a redundancy-free program invariably involves highly repetitive, iterative attempts and alterations.
-  * Isabelle Beeton. The Book of Household Management, 1836. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10136.
-  * Allen Downey, Jeffrey Elkner and Chris Meyers. How to Think Like a Computer Scientist. Green Tea Press, 2002
+They might share many more imagined similarities, but it is the accumulations of repetition that define the practice of cooking as much as coding. Both rely on mixing familiar gestures with yet unfamiliar ones, and through experience we learn that some forms of repetition might be less redundant than others.
-  * Frederick P. Brooks. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering. Addison-Wesley, 1995.
-  * Henri Lefevbre. Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life. London: Continuum, 2004.
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-  * Luce Giard, Michel de Certeau, Pierre Mayol. The Practice of Everyday Life: living and cooking. University of Minnesota Press, 1998
+Luce Giard, Michel de Certeau, Pierre Mayol. //The Practice of Everyday Life: living and cooking//. University of Minnesota Press, 1998
 ===Femke Snelting===