Each dish gets an analytic breakdown of the general technique used to make it, followed by a breathtaking, wonky chart of ingredients and variations.

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If the historian of 2111 will be puzzled by such a chart, what is the citizen of today to make of it?

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Make a chart or graph on poster board or a large piece of paper.

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This closes a goodly portion of that gap you make much of in your chart.

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To make more sense of this, the International Tennis Federation, the game's law-makers, have produced a chart which simply matches the coefficient of friction (friction) and coefficient of restitution (bounce) to produce a court pace rating.

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