[ubikkibu]

This is #1 on HackerNews? Why?

[Malic]

Because being a hacker is about obsessively working to know all there is about a given subject and become better in a chosen craft. Bocuse was cooking hacker.

[Malic]

I forgot to mention - he was also a teacher of his craft and that counts too.

[ce4]

Because he was one of the most renowned chefs. Cooking can be quite nerdy, scientific and of course entrepreneurial. Modernist Cuisine is from a former Microsoft [1] guy, for example.

[1] http://modernistcuisine.com/

[dang]

It fits the criterion for being on topic: it gratifies intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[bitwize]

Because if any of us weren't foodies before Ratatouille, we sure became so after.

[orf]

Why not?