A strange little side quest
The rules may be simple on screen, but the backstory around Schezwan Chicken Cooking is anything but tiny. Nancy Johnson patented a hand-cranked ice-cream freezer in 1843 that used an inner churning chamber surrounded by ice. It also connects to a different milestone: In 18th-century America, upper-class men as well as women wore make-up, a reminder that beauty customs have never been as fixed as they can seem. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.
