I was talking about Home Economics (microeconomics) and expanding that to Community Economics or call it Campus or Base Economics if you prefer. There’s a base kitchen supplied from base inventory and we make cooking shows while making recipes (following algorithms) for base personnel.
The tie-in is to First Person Physics which means doing chemistry n stuff, and cooking is nothing if not chemistry in action. We pay special attention to phase changes between the solid, liquid and gaseous forms of substances, with words for those transitions: freeze, melt, boil, condense. Bake. We have appliances to help us with all of these.
Then of course, in addition to the thermodynamics involved, we the obvious tie-in with metabolism. Food and drink is for eating and imbibing. We also inhale. Lets and hearing and smelling while we’re at it. And presentation.
In metabolic science, the chemistry gets intense, as we learn about the acids, the enzymes, the sequence of steps involved in processing whatever inputs. Cooking takes us in every direction, from micro to macro. Electricity powers the appliances, plus is generated biologically within tissues. Chemistry is electronics after all, given the role electrons play.
A next bridge is to food pods and the food trucks industry. All those skills get this new context of the food pod, which may come with some form of crypto or token for currency. Various technologies for recording transactions means “home ec” meets fintech. Simulations, as in computer games or training / rehearsal setups go here. The cast needs opportunities to practice roleplaying. Cooking is theater with a lotta props, some of them edible.
