Culinary Arts and Computer Science (2019) [pdf]
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> Foreword to A Book of Tasty Algorithms (a special edition of Azerbaijan Cuisine) presented to participants in the 31st International Olympiad in Informatics (Baku, Azerbaijan: 2019)
A slightly longer version is at http://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/azerbaijan.pdf