(Video link here.)  Three-star Michelin chef Massimo Bottura of Osteria Francescana in Modena believes that it is essential to make poetry in everyday life, even with mistakes we make…as he did with a smashed lemon tart, an accident by a waiter that Bottura found “Perfect!”, recreating it anew with each order. But this three-minute video is way more than about that lemon tart. The guy is a philosopher:

If you don’t realize that in your life the most important thing to is to leave a free space for poetry, you don’t realize the value of your life. You have to leave a free space from obligation for everything you have to do for the poetry.

You have to be ready to see things that others don’t even imagine. ‘Make Visible the Invisible’

After witnessing the perfection of the smashed tart, Bottura devised a way to assemble the tarts elements anew into an “accident” on the plate. Each iteration is slightly different.

Accidents are a big part of the “poetry of everyday life”.