The authors argue that living organisms establish long-range links over space and time by building and maintaining highly oriented flows and asymmetric interfaces. They use the example of stew as a familiar process in which this network of oriented dynamic perturbations in space and time can be observed.

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A stew cooked in Madrid in January 2009 in the kitchen of Clara Maria González Amezúa, who runs the prestigious cooking school Alambique and has been a major hand in food thinking in Spain and the world over the past 30 years. Note the three “vuelcos” or dishes: the soup, the meat and the vegetables. (© The camera and image copyright and copyleft holder is Ramon Guardans.)

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