Before start writing: Mise-en-Place

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Anthony Bourdain, an American chef and television personality, known for the TV show No reservations, wrote in his best-seller book called Kitchen Confidentialthat ‘mise-en-place is the religion of all good line cooks.’

Meez is mise-en-place: your set up, your station prep, your assembled ingredients and, to some extent, your state of mind.

As a cook, your station, and its condition, its state of readiness, is an extension of your neurons system—and...