If you wanted to learn how to bake bread, would you:

a-Go to a world-reknown biochemical expert to get a careful explanation of the molecular structure of wheat and the changes it undergoes when exposed to heat?

or

b-Go to a baker and see how he does it?

This book is committed to the notion that the correct answer is a.

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