"Uh, yeah, you're really not supposed to cook meat in containers that you've cooked dairy in and vice-versa, and you're not supposed to use cooking containers that've been used for food that isn't kosher at all, so Mom has a separate set of implements for things like bacon and stuff."

"...bacon's not kosher?"

"Nothing made of pork is."

"...these rules don't seem to have an obvious principle."

"Well, I don't know why exactly the meat and cheese part, but the pork part was because we as a people were wandering around in a desert when these rules were handed down and couldn't cook it safely."

"Huh."

"No shellfish either, same reason as the pork."

"Seems like shellfish would be hard to come by in a desert anyway."

"You'd think!"

"Is it annoying to keep track of or are you just really used to it?"

"If I tried to be obsessive about making sure I followed all the rules it might be hard to keep track of but I don't."

"Which ones do you ignore?"

"It's less that I actively choose to ignore them and more that I'm not careful to make sure I'm remembering them all?"

"Fair enough."

"Anyway, no one cares what you eat, so you don't have to worry about it."

"I mean, unless there's something else I might need to know like that I need to use certain cooking implements."

"I think the cooking implements is it."

"I'll keep it in mind. I feel like my weird sense might be pretty good for cooking, I get a lot of textural detail and could probably tell pretty easily if something was cooked through and stuff."

"Oh, that sounds useful!"

"I mean, it'd have to be really useful to make up for not being able to see unless I'm making alphabet soup," laughs Annie, "but it'll be interesting and I probably won't burn things."

"Maybe we can make--stencil-goggles or something."

"There's sort of a problem if the stencil isn't right up against whatever I'm looking at - I can only see if I focus on the distance at which the stencil is, it's not an outright window. It's fantastic for colors and you're brilliant but I don't think it's a complete fix."

"I'll just have to think of something better, then."

"I love you."

"I love you too."