On 6 March 2010, I was riding on an elevator to the nineteenth floor of the Consolidated Edison Building in New York City, where the 13th Annual USA Memory Championship was being held.  One of the judges for that day’s...

Introduction Today, I want to talk about cooking. We’re going to experiment with memorizing tabular data in the form of culinary ratios using a combination of the wardrobe method and a simple grid system described by Jerry...