Eggs Florentine, Benedict

One of the splendid things about being me is that each element of this breakfast comes so easily, the English muffins, the Florentine, the poached egg, the Hollandaise sauce, so called because it's the sort of thing the French imagine the Dutch would enjoy and it's one of the five basic sauces in the French mother sauce repertoire. 

And repertoire is another French thing meaning the list of well-practiced dramatic things one is prepared to do at the drop of a hat.

Go on then, drop a hat. 

And observe for yourself the flurry of activity that must appear as a blur and something of a conjuring that occurs in a state of serenity. 

Do you care to hear something very strange? 

Take it as a science fiction if you like, it works as well.

In the Urantia Book near the end where it talks about the life of Jesus it relates a version of the wedding at Cana. 

At that point Jesus was by then aware of his divine self and his pre-existance and his own creator prerogatives. But he realized at that wedding that he must be master his every idle thought because celestial personalities were present who were unable by their nature to not carry out their creator's wishes. He had to control his human desires no matter how small because they would do it for him. They can't help themselves if they tried.  

How they tell it is his mother was nagging him at Cana, and it's so easy to imagine a Jewish mother doing this, 

"But my son, I promised them you would do this." 

She was really nagging him, there's a lot more that comes before that, she was pushing him and he finally strongly rebuffed her. He had no intention of performing magic tricks, he had nothing to do with those people running out of wine, too bad for them, so what, that's the way it is, and there his mum goes around making promises she cannot assure just to goad Jesus into action and he was having none of it. He made his mum cry and it broke his human heart it had to be that way. This is how he spoke to her,

"... for have I not many times told you that I have come to do the work of the heavenly father? Most gladly would I do what you ask of me if it were a part of my father's will."

Jesus stopped short as he realized what he had just done. 

His father's will has no problem at all in fulfilling Mary's wish and so the celestial agencies present at that scene knowing the Father's will actuated His will instantly by using the materials present at the scene and using natural processes too, the only difference with regular wine and the apparent miraculous water-to-wine was that the water-to-wine was produced outside the restriction of time. Everything else was right there. Those agencies have nothing to do with time, they're not stuck in time like we are, it's not their dimension. 

Their version's details are half-way down here. 

I told that to my brother once and he got mad as hell. I told him something else too and he got mad as hell at that too. I told him a third related thing and he got mad as hell at that too. He's very emotional. 

And months later he brought up the subject of that third thing again with a another party, but he picked up my vocabulary that I assembled back there to state that third thing, and he propounded the view he earlier resisted.  

And he asked me again to repeat that second thing and elaborate if I would and I said, "Bite me, Brother for I have given up talking about that." Because I learned best not to challenge delicate religious sensibilities especially when it's canon. And besides, it says so itself not to bother. 

And I think about that whenever I make something with yeast. Or anything that takes planning like a roast.  

Since you're not working that whole time you can forget about it for awhile and that's like stepping out of time. 

It's like being a Time Lord like Dr Who. 

You get a dough started and determine if it will be slow or fast, set it up to control the speed, Time Lord like, and then step into your TARDIS and dismiss the whole project for awhile then pick it up later. Total work time is just a few minutes. 

You know who's not a Time Lord? This is disappointing because he's master of so many other things. Mark Bittman, that's who.

Here is Bittman speaking with a master and imagining he's found an improvement. His desire for speed betrays his discomfort with time. He wants to speed it, not step out of it. Time is the whole point of the system under discussion, the thing that makes the difference, the thing that improves, but here in this video time is the thing Bittman wishes to compress. That desire shows that he just flat doesn't get the idea at all. Bittman has failed to internalize the whole point behind the video, one of the YouTube viral sensations that increased his fame.