For each course see a table with all the selections on it.
For ingredients, you must know the item. See it, taste it, know what each ingredient does to the flavour, what it does to the eating experience.
Can you tell I Seldom memorize things for the just for the sake of remembering them.
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However I recognize the importance of the number and the effort required to generate it to that precision. Well the effort before that last few decades.