André Escobar-Linares . Toronto, February 2026. Human beings are intimately bound to fire. We understood its nature and its radical capacities: both destroyer and catalyst. Since its discovery, we stopped chewing food for hours and walking for weeks to deliver a message; we began to fly, to leave the planet. But in my opinion, the most significant effects of fire on humanity are congregation and the sense of service. This created the terrain where cooking flourished. I decide