Mastering the Art of Improvisation
Master: eminently skilled
Improvise: to make, provide, or arrange from whatever materials are readily available
An existing repertoire and learned techniques, flavor bases, and principles allow for open thought, changes, variations, extrapolations, leaps, and falls. Failure allows for growth. It is the influence of science and more so proven culinary facts which then drive our spontaneity and allow for our freedom. If there are rules, then one can bend or break them. This is the evolution of our cooking, such that the steps, influences, and methodology followed allow for this to happen. Rather, it gives us the skills and the repertoire which enable us to act freely.