TO ROAST A PIG
I call this the “Roast Pig” problem after Charles Lamb’s classic 1822 essay “A Dissertation on Roast Pig,” a satirical account of how the art of roasting was discovered in a Chinese village that did not cook its food. A mischievous child accidentally set fire to a house with a pig inside, and the villagers poking around in the embers discovered a new delicacy. This eventually led to a rash of house fires. The moral of the story is: when you do not understand how the pig gets cooked, you have to burn a whole house down every time you want a roast-pork dinner. Quoted by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, The Change Masters, pg. 302
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